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July, 1969. Apollo II has landed on the moon:
Aldrin and Armstrong are making their rounds
collecting lunar samples . . .

Armstrong: ‘What was it? What the hell was it? That’s
all I want to know.’

Mission Control: ‘What’s there? . . . (garble) Mission
Control calling Apollo II . .

Apollo II: ‘These babies were huge, sir . . .
enormous . . . Oh, God, you wouldn’t believe it! I’m
telling you there are other spacecraft out there . . . lined

up on the far side of the crater edge . . . they’re on the

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moon watching us . . .’

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This transcript from Apollo IPs moon mission is just
one of many to which NASA refuses to give its official
recognition. Here, at last, is the complete uncensored
story behind the moon landings: clear and indisputable
facts offered by astronomers and the astronauts
themselves . This book also reveals NASA’s private ad¬
missions about how and why America’s powerful Space
Agency remained silent in the face of such overwhelming
evidence of UFO activity on and around the moon.

SECRETS OF OUR SPACESHIP MOON is the stun¬
ning sequel to OUR MYSTERIOUS SPACESHIP
MOON: together these books represent an astonishing
break-through in our understanding of our nearest
space-neighbour.

A Iso by Don Wilson in Sphere Books:
OUR MYSTERIOUS SPACESHIP MOON

Don Wilson

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Copyright © 1979 by Don Wilson

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‘Did Our Astronauts Find Evidence of UFO's on the Moon?* by
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Excerpts from THE EXPANDING CASE FOR THE UFO'S by Morris
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From SOMEBODY ELSE IS ON THE MOON by George Leonard:
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From THE VOYAGES OF APOLLO by Richard Lewis: Copyright ©
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Excerpts from The New York Times , Nov, 9, 1969 by Walter Sullivan
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SECRETS OF
OUR SPACESHIP

MOON

The more you study the Moon , the more you will become
aware that it is an orb of mystery — a great luminous
cyclops that swings around the Earth as though it were
keeping a celestial eye on human affairs .

— Frank Edwards

• • . the origin and history of the Moon have remained a
mystery despite intensive study by eminent scientists dur¬
ing the last century and a half.

— Dr. Harold Urey
Nobel prize-winning scientists.

Of the bases the visitors might have from which to conduct
their explorations of Earth , none holds more logical or
intriguing possibilities than our Moon.

—John Magor t editor , Canadian UFO Magazine

INTRODUCTION

You are now about to embark on an intriguing intellectual
odyssey. You are about to read one of the most fantastic
theories ever conceived.

Some will regard this theory and its defense as bordering
the lunatic fringe, or just simply science fiction. Others will
immediately classify it as crackpot science. But people with
open minds will, we believe, give it fair consideration. All
we ask is that you let the evidence speak for itself.

For this book is constructed from a fabric of fact, not
fiction. Scientific evidence supporting the Soviet theory that
follows is taken from authenticated sources, much of it
from the files of our space agency scientists. Proofs from
the past as well as the present, cast interesting light on the
origin and make-up of the Moon which has even modern-
day experts baffled. Ancient historical documents reinforce
a Soviet theory which explains the puzzling nature of this
strange world in our skies. Proof positive will be forthcom¬
ing that the Moon is in fact not a natural satellite of Earth!

Do not reject the “unnatural 1 * origin of this seemingly
natural celestial body that circles us, just because it may
seem at first sight to counter common sense. Five hundred
years ago medieval scientists rejected Copernicus’s crazy
idea that our Sun and not the Earth was the center of our
solar system universe. After all did not our eyes every day
show us the truth—that the Sun rising in the- east, traveling
across the sky and setting in the west, absolutely prove
that our star revolved around us. And not the world around

the Sun! Copernicus was crazy, his contemporaries con¬
cluded.

However, common sense and the accepted scientific belief
of his day were wrong. In time an “established” fact of sci¬
ence that was taught for hundreds of years was toppled
into the dust. Nevertheless, the “crazy” priest Copernicus
did not even dare to publish his heliocentric theory until
he was on his deathbed, for fear of punishment which might
include being burnt at the stake for his teachings!

Galileo was imprisoned and nearly put to the torch when
he declared that the heliocentric theory was fact. Galileo
too was thought to be a crackpot by many of his own con¬
temporaries. He claimed that he had seen craters on the
Moon and spots on the Sun through a new fangled gadget
called a telescope. Impossible! Everyone at the time knew
that the Sun was perfect!

We also know how other theories like those of Newton,
Darwin and Freud were opposed by the scientific establish¬
ment of their day.

Even Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of blood was
laughed at. And Pasteur’s idea that invisible germs or
“little beasties” caused diseases was ridiculed and Pasteur
considered a laughing stock by his scientific colleagues.

On and on the story runs through the entire history of
science. In fact it would almost seem to be a rule of the
history of science that what was considered unorthodox
yesterday is now the accepted orthodoxy of today.

We have come over eons of time to look upon the Moon
as a natural satellite of our planet. The unorthodox theory
of two very orthodox scientific researchers of the Soviet
Union that the Moon may in reality be a huge hollowed-
out and internally reconverted “spaceship” may indeed
someday become the orthodox truth of tomorrow.

In the twentieth century man has reached out into space
and touched the Moon. He has walked and worked on an
alien world—the first undoubtedly of many to come. In
the entire catalog of human achievements man’s landing
on the Moon is, in our opinion, and in the opinion of
many, among his greatest accomplishments. It certainly
must be classified as man’s greatest exploratory effort.

It may also lead to man’s greatest discovery. For the
Moon may, in fact, be the key to many earthbound mys-

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teries, not the least of which is the mystery of man himself!

For another extraordinary story lies behind this peak of
human achievement that demands telling. Another tale is
buried here that remains largely unknown—not only of the
strange seemingly artificial structures on the Moon that our
space probes have discovered, nor the strange encounters
of American astronauts with unidentified flying objects and
an unknown alien presence around the Moon. Even more
shocking is the largely untold story of the true nature of
this mystifying mystery world that is orbiting our planet
Earth!

If the theory of two Soviet scientists is correct and our
interpretation of the brilliant work of American and
international experts from all over the world who have
practically torn the Moon apart scientifically is right,
it could be the most shocking and important story of our
times.

We therefore dare you to read this book and open-mind-
edly weigh the evidence. We honestly feel that you too
will then come to agree with us that the Soviet theory is
the most startling discovery of your life.

Many phenomena observed on the lunar surface
appear to have been devised by intelligent beings .
Now, U.S. and Russian moon probes have photo¬
graphed two such “constructions'* at close range .

— Dr. Ivan Sanderson

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STRANGE STRUCTURES DISCOVERED
ON THE MOON

Before man journeyed to our Moon.many men of Earth
were intensely interested in the possibility of finding evi¬
dence of alien beings having visited our satellite. Joseph
F. Blumrich, a leading design engineer at the Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, concluded
after an eighteen-month study on this subject that the Earth
and the Moon have been visited regularly by extraterrestrial
beings. He claimed that eventually we would find their arti¬
facts on the surface of our lunar neighbor.

Why, despite half a dozen manned trips to the Moon,
haven’t we? To begin with, the area of the Moon’s surface
we have explored in six Apollo manned missions is minus¬
cule. Another problem in our search for such artifacts is
that they could be placed anywhere and might be in forms
we have never imagined.

Science reporter Joseph Goodavage recently quoted a
high-ranking General Dynamics Corporation executive who
worked closely with NASA on the many Moon projects as
stating: “An object or artifact placed by an alien civiliza¬
tion on the Moon could be something as obvious as a small
pyramid sitting atop a mountain peak. We’d literally have
to stumble over it before anybody would recognize it for
what it is.” He added: “But nothing less than a full-scale
exploration of the Moon will turn up whatever is there.”
{Saga, April 1974.)

Probably such exploration will not take place until the
twenty-first century at the earliest.

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Actually, even without full-scale exploration, we have
discovered a number of structures which appear to be arti¬
ficial, during the few manned and unmanned space probes
we have sent to our Moon. In fact, of the many mysteries
uncovered in our journeys to this neighboring world, none
is more mystifying than that of the strange structures dis¬
covered there.

In our book Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon (Dell,
1975) we discussed many different discoveries that have
been made on the Moon—both American and Soviet. The
amazing thing is that, as startling and seemingly important
as they are, little is known of them by the public.

In fact, even before man journeyed to our satellite, re¬
ports of structures sighted on the surface of the Moon
were numerous. Astronomical literature is crammed with
them. One of the most startling is the huge bridgelike
structure seen over the Sea of Crisis in 1954 by John
O’Neill, former science editor of the New York Herald
Tribune . This oddity was confirmed by other leading as¬
tronomers who also saw it through their own telescopes.
Some estimated it to be 12 miles, long.

Of course, the key question is, was it a natural structure
or of artificial construction? The eminent British astrono¬
mer H. P. Wilkins, head of the Lunar Section, British
Astronomical Association, made this startling statement in
a BBC radio program: “It looks artificial.” (Donald Key-
hoe, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy , Holt, 1975.)

When he was asked what he meant exactly by the term
“artificial,” Dr. Wilkins answered: “Well, it looks almost
like an engineering job.” This lunar expert added that it
was more or less regular in outline, and even cast a shadow
under a low Sun. He startled everyone when he exclaimed:
“You can see the sunlight streaming in beneath it.”

In the entire radio interview, not once did Wilkins refer
to this structure as being a “natural” bridge. Instead, he
used words which indicated that he thought it might be
artificial. The fact that the bridge had not been seen before,
although the area was well known and often studied, in¬
creased the possibility that it might indeed be a construction
made by beings not of this world—and faddy recently.

Many other seemingly intelligently constructed “struc¬
tures,” like walls that formed squares or rectangles, and

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even strange domelike structures that appeared out of no¬
where and at times seemed to disappear, led. many ob¬
servers to believe that they are the work of alien intelli¬
gence.

The chances are, admittedly, that many apparently arti¬
ficial constructions are nothing but natural formations, mis¬
interpreted by Earth observers due to the vast distance be¬
tween us and our nearest neighbor. Space photos of Earth
teach us a lesson here. From outer space, orbiting vehicles
have taken photographs that lend to many natural Earth
formations an aura of artificiality. For instance, from the
depths of space the Barringer crater of Arizona looks like
an artificial construction. Similarly, photos of an area at
the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in northern Nigeria
show what appears to be a sprawling series of structured
walls—but we know that these are merely natural forma¬
tions. So man must be extremely careful in his conclusions.

PRE-APOLLO LUNAR MYSTERIES

Before our space program sent probing mechanical eyes
to the Moon, throughout the many decades and even cen¬
turies of the so-called telescopic age of lunar study, compe¬
tent observers on Earth saw strange things on our satellite:
unexplainable weird lights and glows sighted on the surface,
inexplicable changes, and the sudden appearance of struc¬
tures. Astronomers thought that the Moon was a lifeless,
airless, windless, and for the most part erosionless world.
In fact, a completely changeless orb. Yet unquestionably
many changes did take place.

For instance, in 1843 Johann Schroeter recorded unex¬
plainable changes in a six-mile crater named Linne. This
German astronomer made hundreds of maps of the Moon
over many years. Over a lifetime of observations, the crater
Linne gradually disappeared. Today Linne is just a tiny
bright spot with little depth or height, a small pit surrounded
by whitish deposits. What happened? No one knows for
sure. *

*It should be noted that NASA photographs taken by Apollo 15
reveal that Linne today is a tiny crater (1 Vz miles across). The
mystery of what astronomers observed has remained just that—a
mystery.

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Could this competent astronomer have been mistaken?
Schroeter himself believed there was intelligent life on the
Moon, and he attributed some of these changes to “the
industrial activities of the Selenites.”

Although Schroeter’s contemporaries heartily attacked
his hasty conclusion that the Moon was inhabited by intelli¬
gent beings, nevertheless, in Schroeter’s day, unlike our
times, many scientists did consider the Moon to be an in¬
habited world as is Earth.

The great British astronomer H. P. Wilkins, commenting
on these unexplainable changes and Schroeter’s beliefs,
makes this striking observation:

We cannot subscribe to this idea because without air
to breathe it is exceedingly difficult to contemplate the
existence of Selenites let alone to speculate as to their
possible activities, industrial or otherwise. It is equally
difficult to explain these things on natural grounds.

But there remain some still greater puzzles. Some
objects do not vary in their physical features so much
as to the tints or hues of their interiors. There are
craters which change colour in a very peculiar manner.
What looks like a green carpet can be seen spreading
over their floors! (H. P. Wilkins, Our Moon , Frederick
Muller, Ltd., 1954, p. 130.)

Even more wild than Schroeter’s speculations were those
of his fellow countryman and astronomer Gruithuisen, who
was convinced that great cracks on the Moon were actually
canals or roads. Wilkins wryly notes: “It was just before
the first railways were built, otherwise he would probably
have said they were railways.” (Our Moon , p. 57.)

Even more bizarre were reports of other competent as¬
tronomers. On the night of July 6, 1954, Frank Halstead,
former curator at the Darling Observatory in Minnesota,
along with his assistant and sixteen visitors, observed a
straight black line in the crater Piccolomini, where none
had been detected before. It was to disappear shortly there¬
after, although not before other competent astronomers
confirmed the discovery.

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SIGNS ON THE MOON?

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One of the strangest of all such lunar reports conies out
of Japan, where Mainichi> one of Japan’s largest news¬
papers, reported the unusual discovery of Dr. Kenzahuro
Toyoda of Menjii University, who, while studying the
Moon through, a telescope on the night of September 29,
1958, spotted what appeared to be huge black letters, so
pronounced they were easily discernible. The letters seemed
to form two words: pyax and jwa. No one to this day
knows what these letters seen on the Moon mean or can
give an explanation to the experience.

We emphasize that these are the kind of reports made by
observers whom Wilkins, former director of the Lunar Sec¬
tion of the British Astronomical Association, calls “people
who have been observing the moon too long to be easily
deceived.”

Dr. Wilkins adds: “In any case it is incredible that all
were the victims of hallucination. We must accept the rec¬
ords even if we cannot explain them. Our knowledge and
opinions are the products of existence on the earth; it is
reasonable to suppose that on another planet conditions
exist and events take place which have no counterpart on
our planet. If there are intelligent creatures on other
worlds, they are most unlikely to have bodies, or minds
like ours; it would be very surprising if they did.”

Wilkins concludes: “The moon is an alien and foreign
world and much of what happens up there must remain a
mystery until men actually land on its warty surface.” (Our
Moon , p. 139.) *

The objection might be made that man has gone to the
Moon, photographed it completely at close range, and even
landed and explored some of its surface. And no evidence
of intelligently made structures or activities was uncovered.
Or was it?

The surprising answer to this objection is that it was!

* The author is pleased to report that the British Astronomical
Association has announced the formation of a special Lunar Section
(of the NSW Branch) which will concentrate on solving the mystery
of changes and unexplainable Lunar discoveries.

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Photos, both American and Soviet, reveal that seeming non
natural, artificially made structures do exist on the Moonl

SOVIET DISCOVERY OF “MONUMENTS”

ON THE MOON

The Soviet space probe Luna-9 took some startling photo¬
graphs (February 4, 1966) after the vehicle had landed
on the Ocean of Storms, one of those dark, circular “seas”
of lava on the Earth side of the Moon. The photos revealed
strange towering structures that appear to be lined up rather
than scattered randomly across the lunar surface.

Dr. Ivan Sanderson, the late director of the Society for
the Investigation of the Unexplained and science editor
for Argosy magazine, observed that the Soviet photographs
“reveal two straight lines of equidistant stones that look
like markers along an airport runway. These circular stones
are all identical, and are positioned at an angle that pro¬
duces a strong reflection from the Sun, which would render
them visible to descending aircraft.” ( Argosy , August 1970.)

But Sanderson was not the only reporter revealing these
strange structures to the world. The Soviet press also carried
articles on them. The Soviet magazine Technology of Youth
gave an extensive report on them, calling them “stone
markers” which were unquestionably “planned structures,”
and suggested that these “pointed pyramids” were not nat¬
ural formations but definitely artificial structures of alien
origin.

After examining the photographs of these objects, Dr. S.
Ivanov, winner of the Laureate State Prize (which the
Soviets consider equivalent to the Nobel Prize), calculated
from the shadows cast by the spirelike structures that at
least one was about fifteen stories high.

Ivanov, who is also the inventor of stereo movies in the
Soviet Union, pointed out that by luck—perhaps the space
probe landed on a spot where the ground had settled, or
set down upon a small stone or rough spot—“a chance
displacement of Luna-9 on its horizontal axis had caused
the stones to be taken at slightly different angles.” This
double set of photographs allowed him to produce a three-
dimensional stereoscopic view of the lunar “runway.”

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The result of this bit of good fortune, as Ivanov reports,
was that the stereoscopic effect enabled scientists to figure
the distances between the spires. They found, much to their
surprise, that they were spaced at regular intervals. More¬
over, calculations confirmed that the spires themselves were
identical in measurement. Says Ivanov: “There does not
seem to be any height or elevation nearby from which the
stones could have been rolled arid scattered into this geo¬
metric form. The objects as seen in three-D seem to be ar¬
ranged according to definite geometric laws,”

This discovery must be heralded as among the most im¬
portant discoveries made by either the American or Soviet
space program. But, strangely enough, for the most part
they have been ignored. As we shall soon see, other dis¬
coveries, equally as important, have been covered up by
our own space agency. In fact. Art Rosenblum, head of the
Aquarian Research Foundation, who says he learned of
the Soviet discovery from Lynn Schroeder and Sheila
Ostrander, the authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the
Iron Curtain, before their work was published in America,
claims they indicated that authorities at NASA “were not
at all happy about its publication.” Why not? What is
NASA trying to hide? asks Rosenblum. (Arthur Rosen¬
blum, Unpopular Science , Running Press, 1974.)

Another question that probably arises in most readers’
minds is, what was the purpose of these structures, assum¬
ing that they were built by alien beings? Dr. Sanderson
speculated: “Is the origin of the obelisks on the Earth and
those on the Moon the same? Could both be ancient mark¬
ers originally erected by alien space travelers for guidance
of late arrivals?” He pointed out that it seems hard to under¬
stand why man ever started making obelisks anyway, since
it is a very difficult job and seemingly purposeless. Or did
obelisks have a purpose other than Earthly? Could these
spirelike structures actually be signal spots for the coming
and going of spaceships, as some speculated? Not marking
the landing on outer Moon bases but for underground,
hidden bases located inside the Moon?

Intriguingly, on the edge of this same Sea of Storms is
a strange opening that leads down into the Moon. Dr. H. P.
Wilkins, one of the world’s leading lunar experts before his
untimely death a few years ago, was convinced that ex-

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tensive hollow areas did exist inside the Moon, perhaps in
the form of caverns, and that these were connected to the
surface by huge holes or pits. He discovered such an open¬
ing himself—a huge round hole inside the crater Cassini A.
This crater is one and a half miles across, and the opening
leading down into the Moon is over 600 feet across—more
than two football fields laid end to end. Wilkins writes in
his definitive work, Our Moon: “Its inside is as smooth as
glass with a deep pit or plughole, about 200 yards across at
the centre.”

As we shall see in the coming chapters, hundreds, in fact
thousands, of UFOs have been seen on or around the sur¬
face of the Moon, and a concentration of them has been
spotted in the Sea of Storms. Could they be coming and
going through this huge opening or one like it?

AMAZING AMERICAN DISCOVERY OF
PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES ON THE MOON

The Soviet discovery is* mind-boggling enough. But,
amazingly, a similar discovery was made by the American
space probe Orbiter 2, which took pictures on November
20, 1966, from a height of 29 miles above the Sea of
Tranquility—the very same area where our first astronauts
landed on the Moon.

The photos of Orbiter 2 show what appear to be the
shadows of several pointed spires shaped like obelisks—long
needlelike structures similar to the Washington Monument
and to Egyptian obelisks like Cleopatra’s Needle, now in
Central Park, New York.

From the shadows cast by these long, needlelike spires
scientists have variously estimated that they range from 40
to 75 feet high. Soviet scientists examining the American
Orbiter 2 photos claim that they are much higher—at least
three times as high as the highest American estimate, which
would make them as tall as a fifteen-story building! A few
scientists, like Dr. Farouk El Baz (formerly one of NASA’s
leading geologists, now with the Smithsonian Institution),
estimate that these spirelike structures on the Moon are
as tall as the tallest buildings on Earth—and probably even
taller! (Saga, March 1974.)

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More important than their height or size, however, is
their positioning. Dr. William Blair of the Boeing Institute
of Biotechnology claims they are geometrically positioned.
Blair, a specialist in physical anthropology and archeology,
observes: “If the cuspids [these spirelike stone structures]
really were the result of some geophysical event it would
be natural to expect to see them distributed at random.
As a result the triangulation would be scalene or irregular,
whereas those concerning the lunar object lead to a basilary
system, with co-ordinates x, y, z to the right angle, six
isosceles triangles and two axes consisting of three points
each.” The Los Angeles Times (February 26, 1966) car¬
ried a drawing of Blair’s geometrical analysis of the po¬
sitioning of these spires, as they were photographed by
Orbiter 2. (See the NASA photo on inside back cover,
and note the long, pointed shadows which indicate seven
spires. Hold the picture upside down for proper effect.)

Because of this peculiar geometrical positioning, Blair is
convinced that these seven spires grouped closely together
are not randomly placed. To him the spires are significant
simply because they form a right-angled coordinate system,
resulting in six isosceles triangles and two axes of three
points each. He believes this cannot be happenstance. Fur¬
thermore, as Blair points out, there is also evidence that a
large rectangular pit exists just west of the largest spire.
As he observes: “The shadow cast by this depression seems
to indicate four 90-degree angles and resembles the profile
of an eroded structure.”

Blair insists that they should be investigated more thor¬
oughly, for, as he points out, if a similar thing had been
found on the planet Earth, “archeology’s first concern
would have been to inspect the place and carry out trial
excavations to assess the extent of the discovery.”

As this expert anthropologist and scientist notes, if sim¬
ilar structures on Earth had been passed off in such a
fashion more than half the Mayan and Aztec architecture
known today would be “still buried under hills, depressions
covered in trees and woods.” In fact, concludes Blair: “If
these had been passed off as a result of some geophysical
event the science of archeology would have never been
developed, and most of the present knowledge of man’s
physical evolution would still be a mystery.”

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However, not all scientists agree with Blair’s assessment
of these strange structures. Dr. Richard W. Shorthill of
the Boeing Scientific Research Laboratory claims that
“there are many of these rocks on the Moon’s surface.
Pick some at random and you eventually will find a group
that seems to conform to some kind of pattern.”

This is a gross exaggeration on ShortMH’s part, for
though other such strange groupings of needlelike spires
and similar puzzling constructions exist on the Moon, they
do not proliferate in such large numbers that chance, ran¬
dom arrangements of a distinct geometrical nature can be
found all over the place. Furthermore, other scientists, such
as Soviet space engineer Alexander Abramov, have exam¬
ined the Orb iter photos and concur with Blair’s judgment
that they are indeed geometrically positioned. But Abramov
believes they are positioned in a very unusual way. His
geometrical analysis, made by calculating the angles at
which “they appear to be set,” leads Abramov to conclude
shockingly that they form what is known as an “Egyptian
triangle.” Seemingly artificial constructions on the Moon
that just happen to form what' is known among archeologi¬
cal and historical experts on Earth as an Egyptian triangle?

Says Abramov: “The distribution of these lunar objects
is similar to the plan of the Egyptian pyramids constructed
by Pharoahs Cheops [the Great Pyramid], Chephren, and
Menkaura at Gizeh, near Cairo . The centers of the spires
in this lunar ‘abaka’ are arranged in precisely the same
way as the apices of the three great pyramids.” (Argosy,
August 1970. Emphasis added.) Also see American photo
of this strange positioning.*

If Dr. Abramov’s calculations (as reported by Dr. Ivan
Sanderson) are correct, then this is not only startling
evidence of intelligence on the Moon but leads to the rea¬
sonable conclusion that this intelligence left its telltale
marks on the planet Earth.

Only up to now we have not recognized them for what
they are!

There is yet another clue which indicates these objects
are not natural formations but artificial constructions. Dr.
Farouk El Baz, who maintains that some of the spires are

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* See NASA photo of these structures: Inside back cover.

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“taller than the tallest buildings on earth as calculated by
the tremendously long shadows they cast on the Moon’s
surface” (perhaps even more than two to three times the
height of the tallest structures on Earth!), points out that
these structures are of a much lighter color than the sur¬
rounding lava fields and landscapes, which indicates that
they are “constructed of different materials.” {Saga, April
1974.)

Such conclusions on the part of respected space scientists
—both Soviet and American—indicate that what we have
here is the first concrete evidence of the existence of an
alien intelligence on the Moon.

But if we are to believe two Soviet scientists of the re¬
nowned Soviet Academy of Sciences, there is a whole world
of evidence that the Moon itself indicates that not only was
there intelligent life on the Moon at some indeterminate
time in the past, but intelligent life has been living inside
the Moon for eons. The evidence they have compiled
leads them to believe that the Moon may be a hollowed-
out spacecraft of a sort, steered into orbit around our Earth
eons ago!

IS NASA COVERING UP THE
ORBITER 2 DISCOVERY?

Art Rosenblum of the Aquarian Research Foundation
claims he met a scientist formerly employed by NASA
who had helped design the Houston Space Center.

Rosenblum declares: “He told me that at about the time
of . . . photographing the shadows of the obelisks . . . the
Boeing Aircraft Corporation published this same photo in
their company newsletter. . ♦ . He had not seen it published
since then. He also told me that while working for NASA
he found it uncommonly difficult to get information from
them. ...”

Rosenblum pointedly asks: “If monuments had been dis¬
covered on the Moon, one would suppose that that is about
the most important result of the whole Moon probe effort.
Why is this information not widely publicized by NASA?
Why are they not fully investigated—or are they? What

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other type of information is being withheld? Why? Should
not NASA be investigated?” (Unpopular Science .)

Rosenblum’s implications are not quite true. Certainly
NASA can be accused of cover-ups, as we have seen, but
to assert that they never released any information or photos
on this at all is totally inaccurate.

On November 22, 1966, NASA did release a photo (see
photo, inside back cover). At the same time, NASA denied
that it revealed anything—so very few news publications
or other media picked up on the story. After all, hadn’t
the authority , the National Aeronautics and Space Ad¬
ministration, spoken?

However, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles
Times were among the few that carried stories clearly show¬
ing that there might be something to the strange photo.

The Washington Post, in fact, ran a front-page story
showing the startling photo with this headline:

6 MYSTERIOUS STATUESQUE SHADOWS

PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE MOON BY ORBITER

*

Post staff writer Thomas O’Toole noted that the photo
indeed showed “six shadows” which were “hailed by scien¬
tists as one of the most unusual - features of the Moon ever
photographed.”

Measurements of the huge shadows in the photo, O’Toole
went on to point out, showed them to be as short as 2D
feet and as long as 75 feet. One scientist referred to these
needlelike shadows on the Moon, says O’Toole in an off¬
hand way, as “Christmas tree effect.” Another referred to
their “Fairy Castle” effect. However, one scientist was
impressed and called the region the Moon’s “Valley of the
Monuments.”

While NASA feigned ignorance as to just what could be
causing these shadows, O’Toole noted that “the largest
shadow is just the sort that would be cast by something
resembling the Washington Monument, while the smallest
is the kind of shadow that might be cast by a Christmas
tree. (Washington Post, November 22, 1966.)

The New York Times took a much ‘more conservative
view of the startling nature of these strange shadows and
the objects creating them. On November 24, 1966, Dr. Thor

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Karlstrom of the U.S. Geological Survey was quoted by
the Times as saying:

“The objects casting the shadows are not so nearly spec¬
tacular as the shadows themselves.”

Karlstrom insists that a very low Sun (11 degrees) makes
them appear much longer than they really are. He even
denies that all have “a spire-like” appearance, although he
does admit that these “shapes are very, very interesting,”
He says at least a couple of the shadows indicate that they
are created by “squat blocks rather than spires because
they appear wider than they are high.”

Other scientists dispute Karlstrom’s calculations and con¬
clusions, as we have seen, but Soviet scientists who have
investigated these photos generally agree that they reveal
spires, all right, and much higher spires than even the most
generous American scientists are willing to admit. In fact,
the Soviets claim that not only are there towering spires
but their unusual position gives away the fact that they are
artificial in construction.

THE POSSIBLE TRANQUILITY CONNECTION

The strange, seemingly artificial structures discovered by
Orbiter 2 show them to be located on the Sea of Tran¬
quility. Was it by accident that the very first men landing
on the Moon, on the very first manned-landing mission to
the Moon, were sent to this very same area, near these
mysterious pyramidal, obelisklike structures?

Was this just a coincidence? We do know that our space
authorities at NASA knew of the existence of these strik¬
ing structures. They were photographed in 1966, long be¬
fore Apollo 11. Surely NASA, knowing of the existence of
such strange structures and, contrary to their public pro¬
nouncements, not knowing for sure whether they were
artificial or natural, would have been anxious to investigate
these strange spires. Surely they did. But why is it that they
did not announce their findings then? Furthermore, dare
we ask: Did NASA actually choose the Tranquility site
because of the Orbiter 2 discovery? Perhaps the answers
to these important questions will become known. Perhaps
someday we shall know the full truth.

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We do know that Dr. Farouk El Baz, one of NASA*s
former scientists, now research director at the National Air
and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, admitted
in a magazine interview that NASA actually did carry out
secret investigations, and he insisted that “not every dis¬
covery has been announced.” In fact, El Baz claims that
NASA was “looking for something” on its manned Moon
missions. Was that perhaps a much bigger artificial con¬
struction? For if the two Soviet scientists are correct, then
the Moon itself is in part an artificial construction—a
natural asteroid converted into a hugh hollowed-out space¬
ship!

Be prepared to face up to new explanations for old
mysteries on the Moonl

—George Leonard

TWO _

MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS ON THE MOON!

Not only have strange structures been discovered on the
Moon, but even more puzzling, mystifying, unexplainable
lights and moving objects have been seen on a world that
scientists insist is completely dead. In fact, there have been
so many reports of mysterious lights and unexplainable
“happenings” taking place on our satellite that our own
government space agency, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, itself produced a study of them.
Interestingly, this was done before this same government
agency sent men to the Moon.

This remarkable study was called Chronological Cata¬
logue of Reported Lunar Events . It included a listing of
strange lights (both stationary and moving), glows, and
“happenings” reported by reliable observers over the past
several centuries. Doubtful reports have been excluded.

Although the study is extensive, it certainly is not com¬
plete. Another group of scientists, working independently,
reported over 800 solid sightings of strange lights and glows
on our Moon. Others claim that they actually number in
the thousands. But the NASA study is impressive. It is im-

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pressive just to think that our own space agency took the
trouble to make such a study. Surely this indicates they
suspected something unusual has been taking place on our
neighboring world.

What kinds of reports does the NASA study include? It
is impossible, of course, to give even superficial coverage
of the entire study, but we have included a fairly repre¬
sentative sampling.

Here is a selection of some of the more impressive
sightings:

• On March 5, 1587, “a star is seen in the body of
the moon . . . whereat many men marvelled, and not
without cause, for it stood directly between the points

, of her homes.” (Harrison, 1876; Lowes, 1927.)

• November 12, 1671—A small whitish cloud sighted
on the Moon by the well-known scientist Cassini. Since
clouds do not exist on the Moon, what could it have
been? Interestingly, today, as in ancient times, UFOs
have commonly been described as “clouds.” And in
this NASA account “clouds” were reported to have
been sighted on the Moon dozens of times.

• May 18, 1787—“Lightning” was seen on the face
of the Moon by astronomers Halley and De Louville.
De Louville explained them away as “storms.” Nei¬
ther “storms” nor “lightning” can take place in the air¬
less world of our Moon.

• March-April 1787—William Herschel sighted three
“bright spots” and an additional four “volcanoes” in
April 1787. It is difficult to figure out what Herschel
actually saw, since our lunar scientists have learned
from Apollo studies that the Moon is a dead world and
assure us that it has been volcanically dead for the
past 3 billion years, and certainly there have been no
volcanoes in recent times. What then were these “vol¬
canoes” that the father of modem astronomy saw on
the Moon?

Interestingly, Herschel reported that some of these
strange lights seemed to be moving “above the moon.”

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• July 1821—The German astronomer Gruithuisen
reported seeing “brilliant flashing light spots” on the
Moon. “Blinking’ ’or “flashing” lights are reported
scores of times in this report.

• April 12, 1826—Black moving cloud over the Sea
of Crisis (reported by Emmett). Interestingly, this is
the same area where modern-day astronomers re¬
ported seeing a bridgelike structure suddenly appear in
1954, where none had been detected before. Is it
coincidental that lights and other inexplicable lunar
“events” have been reported in this same area dozens
of times?

• February 1877—A fine line of light like “luminous
cable” drawn west to east across Eudoxus Crater. The
light was observed to last one hour. The average time
“lights” lasted, according to the study, was over 20
minutes! They could hardly have been meteors flashing
against the hard lunar surface, as some scientists
claim.

• July 4, 1881—“Two pyramidal luminous protu¬
berances appeared on the moon’s limb . . . They slowly
faded away ..What could this have been?

• April 24, 1882—Shadows, both moving and station¬
ary, sighted in the Aristotle area. Moving shadows on
the Moon? What could produce moving shadows ex¬
cept something moving? But what could possibly be
moving on this dead world?

• January 31, 1915—Seven white spots arranged like
a Greek gamma. What could this have been? Scientists
do not know.

• April 23, 1915—A narrow, straight beam of light
in the crater Clavius.

• June 14, 1940—Two hazy streaks of medium in¬
tensity, much complex detail. Seen in the crater Plato,
where thousands of lights have been reported.

• October 19, 1945—Three brilliant points of light

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on the wall of Darwin. Cited by Moore, one of the
scientists who prepared the report.

• May 24, 1955—“Glitter,” suggesting electrical dis¬
charge, sighted near the Moon’s south pole. The well-
known scientist Firsoff was the observer.

• September 8, 1955—Two flashes from the edge of
Taurus. Coincidentally (?), this is where the astro¬
nauts of Apollo 17 were sent (Taurus-Littrow area).

• September 13, 1959—The area of Littrow was
“obliterated by a hovering cloud.” Could this have
been a UFO?

• June 21, 1964—A moving dark area sighted by
several observers in the area south of Ross D. It was
observed for 2 hours 1 minute!

• July 3, 1965—Pulsating spot on the dark side of
Aristarchus; seen for 1 hour 10 minutes.

• September 25, 1966—Blinking lights in crater Plato
seen by several observers for minutes. Some described
the lights as “reddish patches.” Also seen the same day,
red lights in Gassendi for 30 minutes. A month later
(October 25) in the same place, “red blinks” were
again seen by several astronomers.

• September 11, 1967—A “black cloud surrounded
by violet color” was sighted in the Sea of Tranquility
area (where the first mission to the Moon was to be
sent) by a “Montreal group” of astronomic observers,
according to this NASA report

This is just a sampling of what is contained in this study.
It was compiled by Jaylee M. Burley of the Goddard Space
Flight Center, Patrick Moore of the Armagh Planetarium in
Ireland, Barbara M. Middlehurst of the University of Ari¬
zona Planetarium, and Barbara L. Welther of the Smith¬
sonian Astrophysical Observatory. Apparently NASA was
impressed by the study—impressed that in fact these re¬
liable reporters were actually seeing what they were re¬
porting—for soon thereafter NASA carried out Operation
Moon Blink, a search for unexplainable lights and “hap-

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penings” taking place on the Moon. It was done in conjunc¬
tion with cooperating observatories around the world, and
in a short time Operation Moon Blink reported ten more
such inexplicable lunar phenomena, three of which were
confirmed independently and separately by observers out¬
side the program. In fact, by August 1966 ten Moon Blink
stations had detected twenty-eight lunar events! (Lunar
Luminescence , Grumman Research Report.)

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Of course, the key question is, what influence did the re¬
port and the subsequent Operation Moon Blink program
have on the decision to send astronauts to the Moon? This
was done before the Apollo missions took place, though
certainly not before the decision had been made. We shall
probably never know if it had any bearing, but the possi¬
bility is nonetheless intriguing.

The citings in this NASA report do not tell the full
story. Frequently investigation reveals that the sighting
was much more sensationalists than the mere details
included in the study indicate. Of course, this is under¬
standable, for the final report includes only the barest
facts.

For instance, consider an entry in this NASA-spon¬
sored catalogue of lunar “events” which in fact describes a
very unusual rash of sightings. The NASA study reads
simply:

“No. 114—May 13, 1870. Location: Plato: Bright spots,
extraordinary display. Observer Pratt, Eiger; reported by
the British Assn. 1871.”

“Extraordinary” is an understatement! For the myriad of
lights seen appeared in groups of as few as four and as
many as twenty-eight! The lights were extraordinarily bright
—in fact, extremely intense. They also seemed to pulsate at
times: One would increase in intensity while others dimin¬
ished. Almost as if—as one observer put it—“responding
to the touch of switches of some mysterious lunar operator
of electric batteries of lights!”

Thus, this tame entry actually covers up one of the
weirdest and most inexplicable series of sightings ever re¬
corded in the annals of astronomic lunar history. But the
NASA report passed over it without mentioning its extraor¬
dinary nature. For lights were seen not only in the crater
Plato but in the Sea of Crisis area. And not only just in

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1871 but for several years reports of these strange lights
and “events 15 in these areas came pouring in. .The Moon
continued to break out in a splurge of mysterious lights;
in fact, they seemed to appear in such regular patterns that
the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain held a
special three-year investigation.

Again many of these strange, puzzling lights were spotted
in the Sea of Crisis region—the very same area in which
many astronomers had reported seeing a huge “bridge.”
The lights continued to appear again and again—sometimes
singly, sometimes in groups; at times in straight-line for¬
mations, sometimes in circular or even triangular forma¬
tions. Most seem to be moving or varying in intensity. In¬
deed, it appeared to some observers that they were under
intelligent control!

In fact, though the Royal Astronomical Society would
not admit it publicly, it is reported that privately many of
its members expressed the belief that an unknown race af
alien beings on the Moon were attempting to signal Earth.

It is estimated that about 2000 strange, mysterious lights
were observed in this extraordinary three-year display.

Then, as suddenly as they appeared, they disappeared.
What they actually were, no one has been able to figure
out.

Something definitely strange is taking place on our
neighboring world. Moving lights, unexplainable objects,
seemingly artificially constructed and placed structures—
all sighted on a supposedly dead and uninhabited world.

But there is more! The NASA study is far from com¬
plete. In our book Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon we
detailed a whole host of impressive unexplainable lights and
“events” on the Moon, seen by reliable reporters. Further¬
more, Dr. William Corliss, formerly with NASA, has also
compiled an impressive account of weird lunar lights and
“happenings,” most of which were not included in the
somewhat conservative NASA report. His are also drawn
from respected scientific sources.

Corliss writes: “Transient lunar phenomenon . * . has
been observed ever since the invention of the telescope (and
sometimes even without this instrument). It is impossible
to reproduce the thousands of reports, and a representa¬
tive sampling must suffice. 55 (William Corliss, Strange

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Universe, Custom Copy Center, 1975, AOL-103, Al-115.)

Here is a cross-section sampling of Corliss's collection,
taken from leading scientific journals and writings of the
past two centuries.

■

• William Wilkins noticed what he called a “star”
gassing over the Moon—which in the next moment he
“realized was impossible. . .

On another occasion Wilkins even saw lights de¬
taching themselves from the Moon. He observed these
fixed steady lights for more than 5 minutes.

• Robert Hart, competent observer of the Royal
Astronomical Society, observed “two luminous spots”
of a “yellow flame colour,” so bright that “they showed
rays around them as a star would do” (Emphasis
added.)

• Johann Schroeter, a well-known astronomer, saw a
point of light in the lunar Alps regions, as bright as a
star, which disappeared only after he watched it for 15
minutes! To Schroeter’s surprise, “where the light had
been, a round shadow [now appeared] on the surface
of the Moon, which was sometimes gray, sometimes
black.”

• Professor Holden, director of the Lick Observatory,
on July 15, 1888, reported that he saw an “extraor¬
dinarily and incredibly bright [light] . . . the brightest
object I have ever seen in the sky . . . ten times as
bright as the neighboring portions of the Moon’s sur¬
face.”

This intense brightness was difficult to account for, although
Holden thought it was only a volcanic eruption. Some of
the more conservative explanations claimed that bright spots
like this were simply “the sun reflecting off lunar snow.”
The only problem with this inaccurate explanation is the
fact that snow does not exist on the Moon! Another attempt
at a “natural” explanation maintains that they are merely
reflections off metallic elements in lunar mountain peaks.
But the phenomenon that Holden observed “blazed with

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such a dazzling brilliancy that it would be difficult to acJ
count for” it by such a flimsy explanation. j

Others have gone to the opposite extreme and come na
with bizarre explanations, such as the Sun shining oflj
“metallic dikes” or “tremendous crystalized masses, with*
polished surfaces, throwing back the glare of the sunshine!
like mirrors.” I

However, critics point out that if this were the case thej
“glittering eminences” on the Moon would be nothing less
than “enormous quartz crystals, whose dimensions are
measured by miles instead of inches.”

• Science magazine (August 9, 1946, p. 146) also
carried a report of lightninglike phenomena observed
on the Moon; observers saw “some flashes of light
streaking across the dark surface.”

• Nature magazine (August 18, 1887, p. 367) carried
a report of “small cumulous cloud observed a little
distance from the moon.”

• During a lunar eclipse strange fingers of light were
seen “illuminating the upper section which was in
shadow.”

• Dr. Frank B. Harris reported seeing the sudden
presence on the Moon of “an intensely black body
about 250 miles long and fifty wide. ...” Harris said
the sight resembled a crow poised on the Moon. “I
cannot but think that a very interesting and curious
phenomena (sic) happened.” That is the understate¬
ment of the century!

It is interesting to note that these reports are missing from
the NASA study. However, it is understandable why the
compilers of the NASA technical brief left this out. How
do you explain such a huge object over the Moon?

But this is just the problem. How do we solve these
sightings? Before we traveled to the Moon the lights re¬
ported to have been seen there were commonly passed off
as “volcanic eruptions.” Now, however, since NASA scien¬
tists have learned that the Moon has been volcanically dead

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for eons, this explanation seems to be out A NASA pub¬
lication, Apollo 17: Preliminary Science Report (1973),
states clearly that with the conclusion of the Apollo 17
mission—the last manned trip to the Moon—sufficient data
and evidence had been accumulated to indicate that vol¬
canic activity in the last three billion years on the Moon is
either “highly restricted or virtually non-existent.” Scien¬
tists today generally agree the Moon has been volcanically
dead for the last 3 billion years 1

What then were these lights seen on the Moon by the
thousands over the last several centuries, which so many
scientists attributed to volcanic eruptions? For instance,
when the well-known astronomer Grover spotted a bright
light on the Moon which lasted for 30 minutes, astrono¬
mers passed it off as another volcanic eruption. Again in
1958, when Soviet scientist Nikolai Kozyrev of the Crimean
Astrophysical Observatory reported that he had spotted a
bright “cloud” on or near the central peak of Alphonsus, it
was passed off as “volcanic activity” by many scientists, al¬
though Kozyrev himself attributed it to fluorescing gases
issuing from the crater’s central peak.

On the night of November 3, 1958, Kozyrev photo¬
graphed the spectrum of a reddish patch near the same
place. The reddish light “seemed to move and disappeared
after an hour.” Strangely, it was passed off by most astron¬
omers as another volcanic event—strangely because vol¬
canoes are not generally known to move about.

At the same time that learned scientists claimed that
these lights were actually fires of volcanic eruptions, they
also claimed that the Moon was an airless world. And lights
of fires—even glows from them—are impossible on an air¬
less world. We know that the Moon is without an atmo¬
sphere. In fact, Dr. John H. Hoffman of the University of
Texas pbints out: “If you took all the molecules in a cubic
centimeter of the Moon’s atmosphere and lined them up
end to end, they would fit on the tip of your pen. But if
you did the same thing with the air you breathe, the chain
of molecules would reach to the Moon and back with some
left over.”

Admittedly, other scientists have passed off these bright
lights and glows seen on the Moon as merely gases released

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from the lunar interior and fluorescing in the light of the
Sun. Still others claim them to be nothing but solar radia¬
tion inducing ionization and exciting fluorescence.

But former NASA researcher William Corliss points out
in his coverage that this does not seem to adequately ex¬
plain the phenomenon either, since some have been re¬
ported on the dark or far side of the Moon. In fact, Corliss
maintains that though many explanations have been offered
(such as proton or thermoluminescence and, even less like¬
ly, glowing lava or fire-fountains of erupting volcanoes),
“all have serious shortcomings as explanations of the phe¬
nomenon under consideration.” (Strange Universe.)

What then could they be? Some could be solved without
a doubt by such explanations.

Undoubtedly some of those huge glows seen on the Moon
may be explained by some kind of thermoluminescence, as
solar radiation fluorescing on the surface of the Moon, but
certainly not all can be attributed to this. What are they
then?

Could they not be UFOs? Interestingly, we do know that
UFOs were seen by our astronauts on their journeys to and
around the Moon. But our astronauts were not the only
human beings to get a close look at such unidentified flying
lights on or around the Moon—at least not if you believe
Dr. Oscar Carter, a self-styled optics expert and amateur
astronomer. Before the reader conjures up an image of a
modern-day lunar Percival Lowell working at some giant
observatory, it should be pointed out that Carter works
with standard amateur equipment, although he claims he
uses them with his own special optical inventions.

Carter, an investigator for the International UFO Regis¬
try, a worldwide Unidentified Flying Objects organization,
was cited in that organization’s journal UFOlogy as “a re¬
liable investigator” who “believes UFOs are using the Moon
as a base ” ( UFOlogy , Spring 1976.)

According to UFOlogy 's editor, Dr. D. William Hauck,
Carter “has seen and photographed UFOs traveling near
the Moon with the specially designed telescope of his own
construction,” which he “claims enables him to observe the
area around the Moon with a clarity never before
achieved.” ( UFOlogy , Spring 1976.)

However, Hauck does note that “astronomers at Mount

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Palomar and the Naval Observatory have denied the re¬
liability of Dr. Carter’s sightings, the majority of which
involved small black objects criss-crossing and reversing
directions over the Mare Crisium and Oceanus Procellarum
areas.”

If there is any validity to Carter’s sightings, they might
have great significance. For, interestingly, these are the very
same areas—the Sea of Crisis and the Ocean of Storms—
we cited in our opening chapter as regions where strange,
artificial constructions have been observed and photo¬
graphed by both American and Soviet space probes.

However, that is the question—are Carter’s sightings
authentic and genuine? Whether or not there is any valid¬
ity to them, there is a professional astronomer and astro-
physical expert, Morris Jessup, whose credentials are im¬
peccable, and whose reputation in the field put him in the
forefront of discoverers of double stars, who is convinced
lunar lights are UFOs. And he cites innumerable astron¬
omers, many of them leaders in their fields, who claim to
have seen unidentified moving objects on the Moon.

The professional judgment of this open-minded scien¬
tist, a leading astronomer and astrophysicist, after lengthy
study of the strange things happening on our Moon, led
to the unalterable conclusion that the strange lights and
lunar “happenings” could be attributed to nothing else but
•Unidentified Flying Objects—spaceships on the Moon!

In the fifties—that incredible decade which brought a
sudden rash of UFO activity to our Earth—this astronomer
suddenly became interested in what UFOs could be.
With his scientific background and keen mind, Jessup
came to realize that flying saucers did exist and were
undoubtedly operated by intelligences that were not of
this world. Being well versed in astronomy, he soon
came to recognize their base of operations—the Moon. For
he knew that the many strange lights seen on the
Moon and the mystifying “happenings” that have been
reported as taking place on this mystery world could be
attributed to nothing less than Unidentified Flying Ob¬
jects. Jessup made an exhaustive study of the strange
lights, glows, and clouds, the many moving objects, changes,
and even disappearances of certain lunar features, and the
strange appearance of so-called structures on the Moon

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that had been reported in scientific journals by leading
astronomers all over the world. Jessup was aware that
something was happening on our neighboring world, and
after much study came to the shocking conclusion that in
fact our Moon was inhabited—that it was undoubtedly the
base of UFOs visiting the planet Earth.

Jessup was no crackpot. He brought to this controversial
study an extensive background that had helped him build
an impressive list of accomplishments. Besides teaching
astronomy and mathematics at Drake University and the
University of Michigan, he erected and operated the largest
refractory telescope in the Southern Hemisphere for the
University of Michigan, discovering numerous double stars
which are now catalogued by the Royal Astronomical
Society. His books on these astronomic discoveries and his
cataloguing of various stars are in the University of Michi¬
gan library, today, but not a single one of his controversial
UFO books can be found there in their collection of flying-
saucer books. That, is what you call academic open-minded¬
ness.*

In two books, The Case for the UFO (Citadel Press,
1955) and especially The Expanding Case for the UFO
(Citadel Press, 1957), Jessup details the evidence that led
him to conclude that not only are UFOs real and intelli¬
gently operated spacecraft but telescopic observation over
three and a half centuries documented the fact that they
have been on the Moon.

Many of the more impressive sightings that Jessup found
in old astronomic records are listed in the NASA study.
Some we have already analyzed in this chapter. Yet there
are many others that Jessup came up with that are worth
looking at.

In The Expanding Case for the UFO Jessup has a section
entitled “Let There Be Light-on the Moon?” in which he
presents this startling conclusion: “No single indication of
UFO activity on the Moon is more intriguing than the un¬
explained intermittent lights.”

He points out that a close study of these indicates that

*A NASA official charged that astronomer Jessup “never published
a scientific paper in his life.” A simple check at the University of
Michigan graduate library reveals such important books as New
Southern Double Stars t 1933.

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they exhibit evidence of intelligent control: They some¬
times fluctuate, “unlike the steady glare of reflected sun¬
light; sometimes they appear suddenly, shine for a few min¬
utes or hours, and as suddenly disappear.”

The sightings he cites are too numerous to detail here.
But a few of the more impressive ones are worth looking at:

• A “speck of light,” “very distinctly seen like a con¬
siderable star,” sighted at the foot of the lunar Alps.
The German astronomer Schroeter picked up a sim¬
ilar object here, although the British astronomer Birt
does not consider them identical.” ( Astronomical
Register , 1865, Vol. Ill, page 189.)

• Astronomer A. Fauchier of the Marseilles Ob¬
servatory “was startled to see two bright points of
light on the Moon.” ( UAstronomie , Vol. VI, p. 312.)

• “A self-luminous spot on the Moon” seen in the
dark body of the Moon, varying in intensity like “an
intermittent light.” ( Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society , 1948, Vol. VIII, p. 55.)

• May 8, 1881—The astronomer Williams records
nearly 1000 bright streaks and “light spots” in the Sea
of Crisis, the very same spot where astronomers in the
fifties reported seeing a huge bridgelike structure sud¬
denly appear. On March 26, 1882, the entire area of
the Sea of Crisis was “one mass of lights, streaks and
spots.” Other astronomers like Madler noted bright
spots in the Mare Crisium area in May and October
1865. They appeared, moved about, and disappeared.
Jessup concludes: “Such evanescent spots are puzzling
unless we assume controlled activity of some kind.”

• March 21, 1877—Mr. C. Barrett saw “the interior
of the crater Proculus entirely lighted.” ( The English
Mechanic , Vol. 25, p. 89.) This same volume de¬
scribes an unusual sighting by Frank Dennett of a
“point of light shining out of the darkness which filled
the crater Bessel” and “a bright conical peak, sur¬
rounded by a circle of flat needle points clustering
close to it.” (April 19, 1877.)

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And on and on go the myriad Moon lights. Jessup, an ex¬
pert astronomer able to distinguish natural features from
artificial objects, notes that some of these sightings indicate
intelligent control. For instance, sometimes the lights ex¬
hibit “a brilliant glow . . . accompanied by flashes of sin¬
gular brightness.” Often it fades, often it moves about,
sometimes appearing and reappearing. “Clearly, an indica¬
tion that some intelligently operated mechanism was pro¬
ducing these lights,” concludes Jessup.

Also, Jessup notes that these lights are often seen in cer¬
tain key areas of the Moon—at least key in the light of
where our astronauts went. Jessup observes that many
sightings took place in the Sea of Tranquility, where our
first astronauts were sent. “Well documented reports that
Mare Tranquillitas at times of the full moon is sometimes
covered with small bright specks of points.”

We wonder, did knowledge of this influence NASA’s
decision to select this area for our first exploratory efforts?
Remember, this is also the area where strange artificial¬
looking obelisklike structures were photographed.

The sightings of strange lights and lunar “events” that
Jessup recounts come from the most experienced and ex¬
pert professional astronomers as well as amateurs. The
University of Michigan astronomer points out that many
sightings of Sir William Herschel, whom he calls “the un¬
impeachable authority,” note that he saw “some 150 very
luminous spots scattered over the surface of the Moon
during the total eclipse of October 22, 1790,” alone.

But there are more definite and dramatic sightings which
Jessup cites to prove this UFO thesis. Perhaps the most
shocking is the sighting reported by the well-known astrono¬
mer Schroeter (1760). While watching the crater Cleo-
medes one night, Schroeter was surprised to see what ap¬
peared to be “a swirl of dust or vapor and a crater formed
before his telescope.”

Jessup believes that what Schroeter was witnessing was
definitely the landing or taking off of a UFO!

But is such a radical explanation necessary? Could not
this have been a volcanic eruption that Schroeter was
watching? Some scientists thought it was. But, notes Jes¬
sup: “Bear in mind that in Schroeter’s day it was almost
universally thought that all lunar craters were of volcanic

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origin; meteorites could not yet be accepted as objects ar¬
riving from space much less a UFO. Schroeter could be
pardoned for not assuming that he had seen a meteor strike
the Moon. Yes, the ‘eddying’ must have been the dust
created, agitated and blown aloft by the meteoric impact,
or by the sudden movement, of or taking off, of a UFO.”
Since meteors of that size are extremely rare, and from
other details of the sighting, it is clear that Jessup considers
it to be a UFO. ( The Expanding Case for the UFO.)

This was not the only instance that Jessup believes an
astronomer might have seen a UFO take off. On November
20, 1878, the American astronomer Hammes saw an “up-
rush of something” which he reported to the U.S. Naval
Observatory. He watched the whole thing for a half an
hour. Asks Jessup: “Was it indeed, a landing or a blast
off?” {The Expanding Case for the UFO,)

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PLATO ONE OF THE CENTERS OF LUNAR UFOS?

One more area of the Moon that Jessup thinks might be
the center of lunar UFOs is Plato, which he refers to as
“the essence of the problem of life, intelligence and UFOs
on the Moon.”

Jessup catalogues many of the sightings in this area.
Literally thousands of strange lights and happenings here
alone indicate the Moon is occupied. In April 1781 no
fewer than 1600 observations of strange lights were made
here alone.* These lights often appeared in groups, some¬
times even in what astronomers described as “geometrical
arrangements.” Many astronomers were puzzled by them,
unable to offer the faintest lucid explanation. Jessup claims
it is clear what they are—UFOs.

Jessup continued to examine the vast library of lunar
“events” that clearly indicate life and activity on our
companion world. They are too numerous to even men¬
tion in this already long chapter. Later we shall consider

* Birt, an English astronomer, deposited at the Royal Astronomical
Society accounts of over 1500 sightings of lights, moving objects,
and changes in light intensity on and around the crater Plato. Most
of these took place in what Jessup calls “the Incredible Decade”
of the 1870s.

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some of the more startling “happenings” and developments
on the Moon which the astronomer Jessup clearly considers
evidence that the Moon is occupied in our present time.
Suffice for now to give you Jessup’s startling conclusion
concerning our satellite:

Reports of lunar activity which lay buried in the
archives of the nineteenth century astronomical litera¬
ture are now vibrating with new meaning ... I believe
the discovery of life and intelligence in the environ¬
ment of the earth-moon binary system is of as great
ultimate importance to man as photographing the new
galaxies, millions of light years away. I believe that
the discovery, and our consequent awareness of this
space intelligence, is of vastly greater and more im¬
mediate importance to us. It has the effect of putting
us into a new world. Once this new world is estab¬
lished contemporary science will doubtless forget its
opposition and claim credit for a new intellectual out¬
look.

Little did Jessup, as great an astronomer as he was,
realize (at least to our knowledge) what a fantastic new
world lay hidden within the Moon. But as we shall see—
and this is the major thrust of this work—the overwhelm¬
ing evidence is that spaceships from beyond our planet and
probably from beyond our solar system are not just using
our Moon as a base of operations, but the Moon itself
appears to be a vast hollow spaceship!

Some experts believe that in a few years perhaps many
lights will be seen on the Moon as man begins to develop
and colonize his new lunar world. Arthur Clarke observes
in his book The Promise of Space (Harper & Row, 1968):
“It is strange to think that in a few more years any amateur
astronomer with a good telescope will be able to see the
lights of the first expeditions, shining where no stars could
ever be, within the arms of the crescent Moon.”

We have seen that they are already there—and have been
for several centuries! Through our Apollo flights, Clarke’s
prediction in a sense has come to pass. The question we
should now ask is: Was man alone when he was on the
Moon?

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The matter is urgent , They 9 re no joking matter . They
may well be ships from outer space .

— Dr. James McDonald

Professor of Meteorology, University of Arizona

THREE _

THE LUNAR UFO CONNECTION

In the past few decades—and some researchers insist
for many centuries—strange flying objects have been
sighted in the skies of Earth. Unidentified Flying Objects
have been reported over practically every country and con¬
tinent of our planet—and in practically every era of his¬
tory. Unquestionably, they have- been seen in greater num¬
bers in the last few years, and have created a controversy
that has often led to heated debate not only among scien¬
tists but among people in every walk of life.

Since the 1950s brought flurries of Unidentified Flying
Objects, many skeptics who once were sure that flying
saucers did not exist have suddenly changed camps—per¬
haps none more dramatically than Dr. J. Allen Hynek,
head of Northwestern University’s Astronomy Department
and of the Center for UFO Studies.

When Dr. Hynek (then director of Ohio State’s Mc¬
Millan Observatory) was first asked by the U.S. Air Force
to help them investigate UFOs, he was a complete skeptic:

“Oh, hell, that’s all bunk,” he remembers telling the Air
Force officers who approached him.

But now Dr. Hynek has done a complete switch. Hynek
the skeptic has become Hynek the believer. He has changed
his mind about UFOs.

Hynek sums it up this way: “I challenge anyone to ex¬
plain all the UFO reports in a rational manner.”

Hynek points out that though most of the reports that
something strange has been seen in the skies of Earth turn

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out upon investigation to be mistakes, "about 20 per cent
of the reports are unexplainable.” He insists that "about
one in every five . , . come from highly credible sources
and do not submit to rational explanations in our frame¬
work.”

Hynek points out that, contrary to the popular notion
that unexplainable sightings are few and far between, the
dean of UFO researchers, addressing the Mutual UFO
Network (a solid UFO group made up of scientists, col¬
lege professors, educators, engineers, and people from
many highly respected walks of life), told them:

"A paradoxical situation exists in the whole UFO prob¬
lem area: we have too many sightings, not too few. Yet we
are far from a solution. We are, frankly, embarrassed by
our riches.”

Hundreds of solid UFO reports come in every year—as
many as half a dozen or more a day. And that presents a
very difficult problem.

For the haunting question of our time is, where do all
these Unidentified Flying Objects come from? Most in¬
vestigators and UFO enthusiasts are convinced that they are
really spacecraft carrying visitors from another planet (or
planets) outside our solar system.

"That’s the easiest interpretation,” admits Hynek, “one
that is in keeping with our level of technological develop¬
ment. But there are too damned many reports—there’s an
embarrassment of riches.”

Hynek claims “there is an even deeper and more sin¬
ister embarassment of our riches, and that is what they
imply about the origin of UFOs. While I, at least, do not
feel quite ready to theorize about the ultimate origins of
UFOs, the implication of the great number of reports per
year is quite clear, and any theory of UFOs will have to
explain their abundance. To our earth-bound minds, one
or two Apollo missions per year is something we can under¬
stand; two or three Apollo missions per day would be quite
another thing! Consider too that the nearest star to us is
more than one hundred million times farther than the moon
—well, I hardly need explain further!” {MUFON *Sym¬
posium, 1973, p. 63.)

Admittedly, the problem of the vast dimensions of space

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is just too great to allow conservative, orthodox scientists
to think that so many spaceships (if they are that) are
traveling here from faraway planets and star systems.

Dr. Carl Sagan, who thinks along these lines, gave the
classic objection to UFOs on a CBS television program.
Sagan, an astronomer from Cornell University who, iron¬
ically, believes that extraterrestrial spaceships may have
landed on Earth thousands of years ago (as many as ten
thousand times in our long history, speculates Sagan),
nevertheless denies that there could be any visitors from
space in modern skies. Sagan summed up his case with this
tricky analogy in a radio interview:

“If you would believe, as the flying saucer cultists would
have us believe, that the majority of saucer reports are
due to their [extraterrestrial] visitations, then you have a
very strange situation. That means that several spaceships
are coming to the Earth over interstellar distances every
day, as if all the anthropologists in the world were to con¬
verge on one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean
because they had just invented the fish net or something.”
(Daniel Cohen, Myths of the Space Age.)

Admittedly, it is hard to conceive how spacecraft by the
hundreds and even the thousands are coming to our planet
from other far-flung star systems. Theories abound that
they may be from bases inside our Earth, even under the
oceans. A few even believe they may be coming from Mars.

There is another area which was once considered by
many major UFO researchers as the most likely base for
UFOs—and this is our Moon. Even Dr. Carl Sagan in his
younger and less conservative days theorized that UFOs
could possibly be based on the Moon—on the far side,
which Earthlings up to that time had never seen.

UFOS BASED INSIDE THE MOON?

Another UFO researcher, Major Donald Keyhoe, whose
recent book Aliens from Space (Doubleday, 1973) has
again placed him among our foremost UFO writers and re¬
searchers, once was quite convinced that extraterrestrial
astronauts came from our Moon. He asserted in his book

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The Flying Saucer Conspiracy: “All the evidence suggested
not only the existence of a Moon base, but that operations
by an intelligent race have already begun. If so, who could
the creatures be? Were they from other planets or did they
originate on the Moon?”

It was with anxious expectation then that many UFO
enthusiasts watched our Apollo flights to the Moon. Various
verified reports had come back that our Mercury and Gem¬
ini astronauts (as well as various Soviet astronauts) had
seen UFOs around the Earth on their journeys into outer
space. In fact, Dr. Garry Henderson, one of America’s top
research scientists, claims that “all our astronauts have
seen these objects [UFOs] but have been ordered not to dis¬
cuss their sightings with anyone.” He also maintains that
NASA has actual photos of these craft, taken at close
range by still and movie cameras.”

We do know that NASA has admitted that a few astro¬
nauts have indeed seen and even photographed unexplain¬
able objects in outer space. The notorious Condon Report:
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Bantam,
1969), which attempted to whitewash all UFOs out of the
skies of Earth, considered and weighed reports of UFO
sightings on Gemini 4, 7, 9, and 11. Interestingly, Chapter
6 of that study includes detailed descriptions of these four
separate sightings by orbiting astronauts, which the Condon
report was unable to explain, except perhaps the sighting of
Gemini 11. (See Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon,)

That chapter was done by Dr. Franklin Roach arid was
one of the few areas of open-minded consideration given to
the entire UFO problem researched by the study.

Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist and space scientist
now devoting full time to the problem of UFOs, in his
book UFOs—Myth and Mystery states: “This chapter by
Dr. Franklin Roach is one of the better chapters of the
Condon report, though Condon’s summary fails to give
adequate attention to these observations. In fact, frankly
they are dismissed as ‘unexplainable/ ”

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THE QUESTIONABLE APPROACH OF
THE CONDON REPORT

Of course, this is not to say that the Condon Report
allows even the possibility that flying saucers exist. This
study, sponsored by the U.S. Government and Air Force
and approved by the National Academy of Sciences, is
condemned by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomical con¬
sultant on Project Blue Book, the official Air Force in¬
vestigation of UFO reports. Twenty years of experience
gradually turned this highly respected investigator from a
skeptic into a believer in the reality of UFOs.

Hynek objected with stinging criticism to the unscientific
approach of the Condon Report . He became convinced
that UFOs did exist, although what they were he admitted
he could not say. Dr. Bruce C. Murray, expert in planetary
sciences at California Institute of Technology, reviewing
Hynek’s work The UFO Experience (Henry Regnery,
1972), agrees that the Condon Report seems to reflect
more a “desire to make the UFO problem vanish altogether
from scientific jurisdiction than a thoughtful attempt to
isolate possible genuinely new empirical observations.”

He adds: “Thus Hynek not only defends UFO’s but
necessarily attacks the scientific establishment that has writ¬
ten them off. Can our modern scientific institutions be as
limited as their predecessors were when scientific authority
refused to acknowledge the reality of meteorites, hypnosis,
continental drift, germs, Troy, Atlantis, and Pleistocene
Man?” (Science , August 25, 1972.)

p

As head of the Center for UFO Studies, a clearinghouse
for UFO reports from all over the world, Dr. Hynek has
collected thousands of reports not only of strange lights in
the skies but of objects seen on radar as well as by com¬
petent witnesses, and, even more amazingly, of encounters
with spacecraft and their occupants at close range (within
20 to 500 feet) and with “humanoid figures reportedly
observed as well.” Hynek calls these “close encounters of
the third kind.” Yet Dr. Murray, who is an objective
reporter, criticizes Hynek despite all his expertise, for
even the leading UFO scientist in the country “obviously
feels uncomfortable” about including cases of Close-En-

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counters of the Third Kind* because of whaf Murray calls
“the little green men” implications. Yet Murray. maintains
correctly these should not be ruled out just because they are
bizarre.

Still Hynek deserves a world of credit for doing just that.
He has become so impressed over the years with the evi¬
dence that he makes a plea that scientists “set aside [UFOs]
bizarre aspects” and investigate them objectively, “for
sufficient scientific respectability for the UFO subject to
permit modest federal research funds to be awarded to it
and new data to be gathered without fear of ridicule.”
(The UFO Experience.)

This is the very same plea we make in regard to the
mystery world that circles our Earth—that serious con¬
sideration not only be given to the possibility that it is the
source of many of the UFOs visiting Earth skies but that a
serious examination of the evidence that it may be a huge,
hollo wed-out orb converted from a natural planetoid into
a kind of spacecraft and “driven” from an unknown region
of the Universe into orbit around our planet, be under¬
taken.

Admittedly, this theory is so bizarre that the natural
reaction may be to at first consider it preposterous. But it is
possible even though our own earthbound minds might find
it at first not plausible or even feasible. We ourselves re¬
acted this way and it was not until the overwhelming moun¬
tain of evidence broke our shell of skepticism that we began
to consider it seriously. We feel along with Hynek that this
theory too should be given serious scrutiny by the scientific
community who should undertake an analysis of the data
and evidence. Because if it is true that our Moon is really
a spacecraft—a hollow world—then this has got to be the
most important discovery in the history of humanity. Its im¬
plications are staggering.

For it is not enough to determine whether or not UFOs

* Close Encounters of the First Kind are those UFO sightings made
at close range (less than five hundred feet) where there is no contact
or interaction of any kind.

Close Encounters of the Second Kind occur when a UFO is not only
sighted at close range but where it leaves a visible record of its
visit, such as chemical changes in the ground over which it hovered
or on which it landed.

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really exist, but also to determine their source or at least
their nearest base of operation. As we have seen and shall
continue to see throughout this book the evidence seems to
point to the Moon as their point of origin. Indeed, our
astronauts on their way to the Moon and while on the
Moon encountered UFOs. Such reports can be verified
through the logs of astronaut-Mission control conversations.

Some additional reports come from alleged accounts,
which are unfortunately not verified. Let us first take a
look at a few of these.

APOLLO 8 SPOTS HUGE OBJECT
ON THE MOON?

In addition to the “unexplainable” flying objects sighted
by our Gemini astronauts, which even the government-
sponsored Condon Report could not reasonably explain, a
number of other strange reports have come to light.
The first trip to the Moon was made by Apollo 8 astronauts
Frank Borman, James Lovell, -and William Anders in
December 1968. As the Apollo crew approached the Moon
(December 24, 1968), where they were to begin checking
out prospective landing sites, they ran into something un¬
expected. After going into the orbit and traveling to the
far side of the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts sighted a
huge extraterrestrial object of some kind, which they man¬
aged to photograph. They estimated the size of this unusual
object—whatever it was—to be about 10 square miles!

On the next orbit they peered all around with anxious
eyes, trying to spot it again. But, strangely, the huge object
had disappeared. Where could such a vast thing have gone
so suddenly? What is even stranger, subsequent photos of
the site where they saw it showed not a shred of evidence
that anything had landed there recently. Could it have
disappeared inside the Moon, to an underground base in a
hollow portion of the lunar orb? No one knows.

Speculation ran rampant as to what it could have been:
a lunar space station of some kind set up by alien beings
from inside the Moon? Or was it a .UFO vehicle of some
kind—an extraterrestrial spacecraft merely checking out
our Apollo mission to the Moon?

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To this day no one has given an adequate explanation
of this alleged sighting. And no one knows where the object
came from or disappeared to. It remains totally unex¬
plained. An absolute mystery.

MYSTERY SPACECRAFT VISITS APOLLO 10

The next trip back to the Moon was Apollo 10, and here
again UFOs made their appearance. On this mission astro¬
nauts Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford, and John Young
were to try out the lunar landing vehicle in lunar skies for
the first time. They were to duplicate every maneuver that
the first manned landing mission to the Moon would carry
out, except, of course, the actual landing itself. Their object
was, as one astronaut put it, to “snoop” around the Moon,
trying out the Lunar Excursion Module (or LEM) and at
the same time looking over four prospective landing sites
for the Apollo 11 landing mission. Because of this, the
astronauts dubbed the lunar landing module Snoopy , the
command module they naturally nicknamed Charlie Brown .

Charlie Brown went into orbit around the Moon on May
22, and Snoopy soon was flying for the first time in lunar
skies, descending to within 50,000 feet of the Moon’s sur¬
face, the closest any humans up to that time had been to
the Moon. As Snoopy dipped to within 4.5 miles of the
Moon’s surface, suddenly a UFO rose vertically directly
from below to greet them. The astronauts of Apollo 10
allegedly caught a glimpse of this brief encounter with a
lunar UFO and, moreover, captured it on 16-mm motion
picture film. They also took a number of still photos of this
unpublicized sighting.

APOLLO IPs RENDEVOUS WITH UFOS

In our book Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon we cata¬
loged in two chapters various sightings of UFOs from
Project Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo
flights. More importantly, we published official transcripts
taken from NASA Mission Control-astronaut conversations

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covering the various sightings of UFOs. These included the
dramatic sightings made by astronauts Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Aldrin, Jr., the first men on the Moon, along with
their trip mate Michael Collins, command module pilot.

En route to the Moon on their very first day in space,
the crew of the Columbia (the Apollo 11 command mod¬
ule) sighted a strange object hovering high above Earth.
They managed to take films of this “bogey,” as the astro¬
nauts termed Unidentified Flying Objects. In our first book
on moon mysteries we included a debriefing-session made
with the Apollo 11 astronauts, who discussed this strange
sighting. Yet to this day NASA officially insists that no
Apollo astronaut ever sighted a UFO.

APOLLO 11 SIGHTS UFOS OVER THE MOON

This was just the beginning of an entire series of strange
sightings for Apollo 11.

At 6:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time on Earth) on July
19, 1969—the day before the-history-making lunar landing
—astronaut Edwin Aldrin, Jr., who had just entered the
Eagle (lunar landing craft) for final testing of all the craft’s
systems, was doing some last-minute filming of the Moon’s
surface with a 16-mm motion picture camera, checking for
possible landing hazards and giving scientists and space
officials back on Earth additional lunar-surface information,
when suddenly two UFOs came into view.

One appeared to be larger and brighter than the other.
Both were traveling in vertical position in respect to the
Apollo spacecraft, which now was in orbit around the
Moon. They were moving at a fairly fast clip, both ob¬
jects moving now horizontally to the center of the camera’s
view.

Suddenly, both “bogeys” reversed their direction, retrac¬
ing their path through the Moon’s skies until they disap¬
peared to the left of the astronauts’ field of vision.

Seconds later, the mysterious objects reappeared. This
time they were flying above the Apollo 11 spacecraft, and
began slowly descending toward it. -Aldrin turned his
camera 90 degrees, to catch them in his lenses, and, strange-

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ly, the two UFOs seemed to hover and come to halt for a
moment—almost as if they were permitting the astronauts
to film them.

Buzz Aldrin, veteran of the Gemini 12 mission, during
which he sighted four UFOs, ground away with his camera,
taking invaluable (but now secret) footage of the two
mysterious objects. The two brilliant UFOs continued to
descend, and suddenly Aldrin noticed a brilliant emission
extending between the two craft. Robert D. Barry of 20th
Century UFO Bureau, who commented on these remark¬
able sightings, says: “Speculation at the time was that this
‘trail* was possibly connected to the vehicles’ motational
systems, possibly even exhaust.”

As the astronauts watched, dumbfounded, the two
UFOs, which seemingly had joined together, suddenly
separated and began to rise vertically at a fast rate, finally
disappearing from sight. The astronauts reported that upon
separation, each “bogey” or spacecraft became somewhat
brighter and seemed “to emit a force field taking the form
of a blurry ‘halo* around the entire craft.” (Modern People
Press UFO Report , p. 9.)

This was not the end of the strange sightings, since a
little while later one of these circular craft came back into
camera view, only to quickly disappear from lens range.
It is reported that “during this sighting, 10 other egg-
shaped objects were seen flying in the foreground. of the
camera’s view.”

As Robert Barry puts it: “Naturally, NASA did not
release these photos to the general public, taking great
pains to edit any such mysterious craft from the final stills
which were released to major newspapers and magazines
around the country.” (Modern People Press UFO Report .)

But this enterprising researcher managed to get them and
make them public, thereby doing a service to everyone—
for the American taxpayers, who footed the entire bill for
the multi-billion-dollar Apollo flights, deserve no less.

These are the major sightings made by our Apollo 11
astronauts. In addition, there are two unauthenticated re¬
ports of sightings by this same astronaut team as they made
their way to and from the Moon. One was reported by
Otto Binder, former NASA researcher and writer, who

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claimed that certain sources with their own VHF receiving
facilities that bypassed NASA broadcast outlets overheard
a startling astronaut conversation. Apparently, as Aldrin
and Armstrong were making their rounds on the Moon,
collecting lunar samples, Armstrong exclaimed, “What was
it? What the hell was it? That’s all I want to know.”

Mission Control, alarmed at what was taking place,
responded: “What’s there? . . . (garble) Mission Control
calling Apollo 11... Apollo 11: These babies were huge,
sir . . . enormous . . . Oh, God you wouldn’t believe itl
I’m telling you there are other spacecraft out there . . .
lined up on the far side of the crater edge . . . they’re on
the moon watching us . . (Saga's UFO Special , III.)

Binder says NASA officials made sure that these words
never reached the public. The broadcast, on a five-second
delay, like all Apollo broadcasts, was censored.

The other unauthenticated report of a startling UFO
sighting by our Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon comes
from Modern People Press UFO Report , which in an article
entitled “Unexplained Lunar Mysteries Point to Intelligent
‘Moon Men,’ ” said that a national newspaper carried the
sensational story that as the crew approached the Moon for
a landing they could see a “space fleet” lined up on the
surface of the Moon! This sighting has never been verified,
but we give it to you for what it is worth:

“APOLLO 11 ASTRONAUTS: ‘You can see them lined
up in ranks on the crater’s edge! It looks as if someone
got here before us.*

“Mission Control then broke in and ordered the astro¬
nauts to film the objects. Those films have never been re¬
leased and the story itself has never been confirmed.”

Here is a brief summary of the highlights of the other
UFO sightings made by our various astronauts:

• Apollo 12—Sighted three UFOs halfway to the
Moon. Again the astronauts reported hearing various
noises—whistles, fire-engine sounds, beeps—interfer¬
ing with their communications to Mission Control. On
the return trip the astronauts reported seeing another
UFO just before splashdown in the Pacific (over

_ *i-

Burma).

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• Apollo 15—A mysterious “flying object” flashed
across the lunar skies briefly, just missing, it is claimed,
astronauts David Scott and James Irwin.

• Apollo 16—Astronaut Thomas Mattingly, orbiting
in the command module above the Moon, saw a
“light” flashing across the Moon’s skies. It disappeared
in a few seconds beyond the lunar horizon. Dr. Farouk
El Baz, former NASA scientist, claims that such lights
as this seen by our astronauts “must remain in the
category of UFOs. ... It is certain [they] were not
any spacecraft we know of because it was moving too
fast. No Russian or American spacecraft can move
that fast, either on or near the Moon.” (Saga, April
1974.)

• Apollo 17—Two more UFOs sighted by our astro¬
nauts, this time by Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt,
the only full-fledged scientist sent to the Moon.

This summary of our many UFO sightings made around
the Moon by our astronauts indicates that nearly every
Apollo astronaut and mission encountered UFOs on or
around the Moon. Why didn’t the public hear of such
sightings during the well-publicized and media-carried
Apollo trips? No on-the-spot reports came through. Then
why was there such a flurry of alleged reports later?

Stanton Friedman, who spent many years working for
the U.S. Space Agency, points out: “It should be noted that
the Apollo flights, about which there have been rumors
concerning UFOs, employ. a different approach to com¬
munications between the astronauts and the ground. The
radio signals are sent directly back to Houston and then
rebroadcast with Houston having the option of deleting
whatever they choose to delete with essentially no one out¬
side NASA able to monitor the broadcasts. During the
earlier Gemini and Mercury flights the talk was ‘in the
open'—readily monitored by ham equipment.” (UFOs —
Myth and Mystery .)

Also, an additional censoring system was the use of a
code system and private channels to which the astronauts
and Mission Control could switch at a moment’s notice.
In our book Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon we included

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actual Mission Control-astronaut conversations of the
sightings of UFOs. In these transcripts Mission Control
from time to time gave orders to the astronauts in some
unusual terms, seemingly whenever an unusual sighting was
taking place, directing them to “Go to Whiskey Whiskey”
or “Barbara Barbara” or “Bravo Bravo” or “Kilo Kilo.”

One NASA scientist who has left the space agency ad¬
mitted that private channels were set up by NASA and used
during these missions and that these strange terms could
have been code names for switching to such channels.

Interestingly, there is an intercontinental ballistic missile
base in Montana by the name of Kilo Kilo. Could NASA
have used this base’s radio equipment to filter out through
this prearranged private channel anything NASA did not
want the public to know? Shockingly, Whiskey Whiskey,
Barbara Barbara, and Bravo Bravo are also bases in the
West.

To this day NASA has not revealed officially that our
Apollo astronauts did actually see UFOs while in outer
space. Stanton Friedman, widely known scientist who now
works full-time investigating UFOs, observes: “I did once
spend over two hours discussing UFOs with one of the
Apollo astronauts who was extremely interested in what I
had to say, bought four hard-to-get UFO documents but
would give me no information at all—not even that which
turned up in the Condon report—about astronaut sight¬
ings.”

Friedman, longtime space scientist himself, then points
out why our astronauts have remained so mum;

For those who have never worked on classified pro¬
grams I should stress that the classification guides for
such programs are normally also classified so it is,
practically speaking, impossible to even determine
what fraction of the astronauts’ observations of the
earth and space is classified. Contrary to some com¬
ments I have heard much NASA data is secret. The
penalties for breaking security are extremely rigorous
and it is often necessary to lie as a cover story. I
believe I can guarantee as a result of' working under
security for 15 years that the government and its em¬
ployees can indeed keep secrets—despite the fact that

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some secrets have been inadvertently revealed. ( UFOs
—Myth and Mystery , p. 7.)

Although our astronauts have kept a tight lid on UFO
secrets, it is interesting to note that several have openly
expressed themselves privately on the subject, stating their
conviction that UFOs do indeed exist.

• Astronaut John Young, the ninth man to set foot on
the Moon, speaking on the existence of UFOs:

“If you bet against it you'd be betting against an al¬
most sure thing ..."

• Astronaut Edward Mitchell, the sixth man to set
foot on the Moon, commenting on UFOs:

“The only question that remains is, where do they
come from?”

• Astronaut Eugene Cernan:

“I believe UFOs belong to someone else and that
they are from some other civilization.”

CRACKS IN OUR SPACE AGENCY’S
CURTAIN OF SECRECY

Despite all the revelations to the contrary, NASA offi¬
cials still adamantly deny that our Apollo astronauts saw
any UFOs in space. Gordon L. Harris, NASA official at
the Kennedy Space Center, was quoted recently as stating
that “no official information which would in any way sub¬
stantiate the presence of UFOs in space—including the
post-mission reports of the Apollo astronauts—is being
withheld from the public.” ( Modern People Press UFO
Report , p. 10.)

But Robert D. Barry of the 20th Century UFO Bureau
points out that Donald L,. Zyistra, chief of NASA's Public
Information Branch in Washington, D.C., did make this
astounding statement: “While NASA has no record of UFO
sightings as such, during the Apollo manned-flight missions
there were sightings from the spacecraft which our astro¬
nauts were unable to explain.”

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Flying objects which must be classified as “unexplain¬
able” fit precisely the definition of UFOs—they are UFOs!

NASA PRIVATELY ADMITS THE EXISTENCE
OF LUNAR UFOS

An even more startling revelation comes from Dr. James
Harder, an engineering professor at the University of
California, who told a university symposium that several
Apollo flights were followed by UFOs. In a story carried
by United Press Wire Service, Dr. Harder said he discov¬
ered the Apollo-UFO incidents while reviewing tape-re¬
corded conversations between our lunar spacecraft and
NASA’s Houston space control.

According to Dr. Harder, the taped conversations (pub¬
lished in Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon) clearly show
that the Apollo 11 spacecraft was followed halfway to the
Moon and a UFO definitely trailed Apollo 12 on three
orbits around the Moon. Dr. Harder confronted NASA
authorities with these facts, and they shockingly admitted
privately to him that “they had suppressed the UFO inci¬
dents for fear of public panic.”

Harder also claims that a member of the Apollo 12
space team (whom he declines to identify) admitted to him
that the mission had spotted UFOs.

The University of California professor points out that
the official explanation—^that the objects were part of the
spacecraft trailing behind—was not supported by the speed
observed on NASA Earth-based instruments.

This in general has become the commonplace explana¬
tion for all UFOs that were seen by astronauts in outer
space: They were (the public is told) merely debris from
the spacecraft or the rocket missile system.

And so it is not surprising that when astronaut Frank
Borman was privately asked by an interested airline pilot
if he had indeed seen UFOs in space, as reported, Borman
denied that they were actually Unidentified Flying Ob¬
jects. The ex-astronaut fell back on that old NASA song:
They were fragments from the launching vehicle.

Yet even the Condon Report , which tries so hard to latch

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on to any answer to explain away all UFOs, does candidly
admit “this is impossible if they were travelling in a polar
orbit as they appeared to the astronauts to be doing.”
Thus, even this government-backed study of unidentified
flying objects rejects the NASA explanation and finally
lists the' UFO sighting of Gemini 7 as “unexplainable.”
{Condon Report , pp. 207-208.)

Interestingly, the photos that astronauts Borman and
Lovell took of the mysterious objects show clearly they
were not space debris. One picture, in fact, shows a bright,
shining UFO, and another, surprisingly, three glowing
objects.

THE FINAL PROOF OF THE GREAT NASA
COVER-UP

The proof that there is actually a cover-up comes from
Robert D. Barry of the 20th Century UFO Bureau, who
claims that a classified NASA document (KMI-8610.4)
that he managed to get hold of actually orders astronauts
that “sightings of objects not related to space vehicles”
(UFOS) had to be reported as pieces of regular NASA
spacecraft.

This same source also insists that a top NASA official
actually stated: “Every manned mission we have sent to
the Moon has been under surveillance by UFOs.” ( Modern
People Press UFO Report , p. 6.)

A study of the records and a glance at the photos will
convince even the most diehard skeptic that this is exactly
what happened when man went to the Moon.

UFOS BASED INSIDE THE MOON

One final question might be haunting you: How is it
possible that so many sightings were seen on the Moon
when no bases were spotted on the lunar exterior? While
it is true that there are no known bases (some observers be¬
lieve that several hundred strange domes that cover certain
craters on the Moon may be just that), it is quite possible

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that lunar bases exist underground . Admittedly, again this
is only theory.

However, this theory—that the Moon might internally
harbor an entire series of bases for UFOs—is not without
evidence. As we have seen, the Moon certainly has been
the center of a lot of UFO activity. Thousands of strange
lights, “happenings,” and even structural changes have been
observed, as documented by leading astronomers and scien¬
tific experts the world over. Some scientists like H. P. Wil¬
kins believe there is substantial evidence that the Moon
might have extensive hollows. These, if they exist, obviously
could harbor such alien beings and their bases.

In fact, according to a startling new theory of two
Soviet scientists, the Moon may not only have hollow
areas internally but itself be hollow! These two bold theo¬
rists have compiled some impressive (though not conclu¬
sive) evidence that our Moon has also an inner shell or
“hull” of metal, and they insist that there is evidence of ar¬
tificial construction existing inside the Moon! Mikhail Vasin
and Alexander Shcherbakov’s mind-blowing theory is the
major theme of this book and-shall be examined and scruti¬
nized in great detail.

Strangely enough, according to George Leonard, an ama¬
teur astronomer and author of the mind-boggling book
Somebody Else Is On the Moon (McKay, 1976), scientists
on this side of the Iron Curtain are also arriving at the same
conclusion—that our Moon is a spaceship! Leonard says
that a former NASA scientist related this information to
him.

This pseudonymous ex-NASA researcher, Dr. Sam Witt-
comb, “heard it [the spaceship theory of the Moon]
explained by an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Lab [NASA]
and by a British physicist at Oxford. The theory is that the
Moon is a vast spaceship, that it was driven to our solar
system many thousands of years ago after suffering a ter¬
rible calamity in space. Its occupants have been engaged
in a long, slow effort to repair the damage. Machinery is
seen in several places on the Moon. It is nuclear-powered,
and will one day be used to drive the Moon out of our
orbit into space again.”

The problem with such an unusual theory is that scien-

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tists as well as the general run of people are wholly un¬
familiar with such a far-out technological concept.

Dr. Farouk El Baz, former NASA scientist who trained
astronauts in geology, makes this profound observation;
“We may be looking at artifacts from extraterrestrial visi¬
tors without recognizing them.”

Could it be that the biggest such extraterrestrial artifact
is the very strange world of the Moon itself?

If compelling evidence can prove that this satellite of
ours is truly a spaceship, then there is such an extrater¬
restrial artifact in our corner of the cosmos; our Moon is
then in reality a huge UFO that so far has not been recog¬
nized for what it is—and a UFO, incidentally, that every¬
one can raise his eyes to the heavens and see.

Furthermore, if it can be proven beyond a shadow of a
doubt that our Moon is really an alien spacecraft—a huge,
hollowed-out planetoid—it could be the key, as we have
seen, to the streams of alien spacecraft that are coming to
the planet Earth.

Then the lights of the Moon, which move around, come
and go, appear and disappear, would make sense. As Dr.
Maurice Jessup, who figured it out several decades ago
after a thorough study of strange fights and “happenings”
that took place on the Moon, concluded:

“It is no longer necessary to explain the visitors as com¬
ing from Mars, Venus or Alpha Centauri; they are a part
of our own immediate family, a part of the earth-moon
binary system. They didn’t have to come all those millions
of miles from anywhere. They’ve been here for thousands
of years. ...”

We shall see that compelling evidence can be marshaled
to prove that they come from our Spaceship Moon.

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I keep telling these geologists to let their imagina¬
tions got

— Dr . Harold Urey, Dean of Moon Scientists

FOUR __

IS OUR MOON A KIND OF HOLLOWED-OUT SPACESHIP?

From time immemorial people have gazed into the heavens
and wondered about the mysterious glowing world revolv¬
ing around us. Man has marveled at the Moon’s beauty,
been mesmerized by her radiance, even made more amorous
by this “silver ornament of the night,” as one author back
in the late sixteenth century described her. And even before
history began, there is considerable evidence that men all
over our globe worshipped her. Now, in modern times,
Earthbound man has broken the chains of gravity, to set
forth from our planet and set foot on this once-unreach-
able world.

Many scientists of Earth thought that going to the Moon
would enable man to divine the secrets of the universe.
To scientists this alien world—the first that man ever set
foot upon—would prove to be a cosmic Rosetta Stone that
would enable mankind to read the records of the cosmos
and unravel the origins and nature not only of the Moon
itself but also of our solar system.

However, instead of shedding light, this longed-for Holy
Grail of the scientific world turned out to be a cornucopia
of mysteries. As rock after rock was returned and voyage
after voyage completed, the results, mulled over and
studied, merely produced mystery after mystery, puzzle
after puzzle. Instead of answers, only confusion has been
spawned. In fact, so much conflicting and perplexing infor¬
mation was produced that after the second Apollo mission
Dr. Louis Walter of NASA’s Space Flight Center con-

*

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fessed: “In view of this latest data, these guys are really
staying loose on their feet.” No one wanted to commit him¬
self. And that has been the whole story of the Apollo scien¬
tific findings so far.

Despite this, a few bold scientists are hesitantly advanc¬
ing theories, none of which is being wholeheartedly ac¬
cepted by colleagues. Scientists who for the most part have
been scrambling over all this information and wrangling
over its meaning do admit that most of the old theories do
not jibe with already established facts. In truth, some of
the answers often seem to be more complicating and con¬
tradictory than the now-shattered theories of the past.

The Moon itself remains a cosmic conundrum that scien¬
tists have just not been able to crack. Although the major
theories have been shattered under the surprising evidence,
the amazing outcome, as we view it, is that nearly all the
information and data that we have pored over, nearly all
NASA’s findings, seems to support the rather bizarre Soviet
theory that holds that our Moon is not entirely what it
seems—not completely a natural world.

Two Soviet scientists, Mikhail Vasin and Alexander
Shcherbakov, in a Soviet government publication a few
years ago (July 1970) claimed that our Moon is hollow
and may well indeed be a spaceship built by some unknown
alien intelligence from a far-flung star system. *

A COSMIC NOAH’S ARK?

These bold scientists tell us:

It is quite likely that our moon is a very ancient
spaceship, with an interior that was filled with fuel for
its engines. . . , The hollow interior should also still

♦Although a NASA official claimed that the Vasin-Shcherbakov arti¬
cle was published in a government scientific journal as a “spoof,”
adding that “the hollow moon theory was entirely a joke,” the
author has received letters and material directly from Vasin, who
has in fact published his latest proofs on the artificial moon theory
in a book (1976), a copy (in Russian) of which he was good
enough to send me, and which we received just as this book was
going to press.

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contain materials and equipment for repair work,
navigation instruments, observation devices and all
manner of machinery.

In other words, the huge spaceship carried every¬
thing necessary to serve as a kind of Noah’s Ark of
intelligent creatures on a voyage through the universe
thousands of millions of years.

Who were these highly advanced creatures who
produced in their mind a spaceship requiring a tech¬
nology and vision we haven’t yet even approached?

The two Soviet scientists refuse to speculate on this ques¬
tion. They nevertheless do state: “Perhaps it was even the
home of a whole civilization of creatures whose original
home planet could no longer sustain life.”

Why would two highly respected, orthodox scientists
from a highly respected science institute propound such a
preposterous and, in their own words, even “crazy” theory?
As they themselves confess:

“Abandoning the traditional paths of ‘common sense,*
we have plunged into what may at first sight seem to be
unbridled and irresponsible fantasy. But the more minutely
we go into all the information gathered by man about the
moon, the more we are convinced that there is not a single
fact to rule out our supposition. Not only that, but many
things so far considered to be lunar enigmas are explain¬
able in the light of this new hypothesis.”

Here are the five major areas of evidence upon which
these two Soviet theorists formulated and postulated their
“crackpot” theory*:

(1) THE MYSTERY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE MOON

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The origin of the Moon remains a puzzle, and all three
major theories as to where the Moon came from and its
origin must be rejected.

The Soviet scientists first of all examine these three major
theories of the Moon’s origin and reject them all:

HYPOTHESIS I. The Moon was once a part of the

* For the complete Soviet “Spaceship Moon” theory and the Soviet
scientists* position paper, see Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon .

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Earth and broke away from it.

This has been refuted by the
evidence.

HYPOTHESIS II. The Moon was formed indepen¬
dently from the same cloud of dust
and gas as the Earth, and immedi¬
ately became the Earth’s natural
satellite.

The Soviet researchers reject this, too, not only because of
the big difference in the specific gravity (density) of the
two radically different worlds but because analysis of Moon
rocks indicates that our companion world is “not of the
same composition as the Earth’s.”

HYPOTHESIS III. The Moon came into being sep¬
arately and, moreover, far from
the Earth (perhaps even outside
the solar system).

This is the so-called capture theory—that the Moon,
wandering through our solar system, just happened, “by a
complex interplay of forces ... [to be] brought within a
geocentric orbit, very close to circular. But a catch of this
kind is virtually impossible, the Soviet scientists note.”

Vasin and Shcherbakov conclude:

“In fact, scientists studying the origin of the Universe
today have no acceptable theory to explain how the Earth-
Moon system came into being.”

This then leads to their own theory:

“Our hypothesis: The Moon is an artificial Earth satellite
put into orbit around the Earth by some intelligent beings
unknown to ourselves.”

(2) SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT THE MOON MAY BE HOLLOW

The major thrust of their density argument is that density
studies of the Moon indicate that the Moon might be hol¬
low. If it is, then, as all astronomers agree, it would have
to have been artificially hollowed out.

Vasin and Shcherbakov point to the “big difference be¬
tween the specific gravity of the Moon (3.33 grammes per

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cubic centimeter) and that of the Earth (5.5 gr.). Such a
low specific gravity indicates that the Moon could be
hollow.”

(3) THE EVIDENCE THAT THE MOON MAY HAVE AN INNER
SHELL OR HULL OF METAL

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The Soviet scientists insist there is evidence that the
Moon’s inner and outer shells were in part formed by the
hand of alien intelligence—that they are in fact at least
partly of alien “construction.” According to their theory,
the Moon has two such areas: the outer shell of rock and
dirt, which they maintain shows clear evidence of rein¬
forcement (the so-called seas or maria, which the next
section will detail), and an inner shell or hull, which they
estimate to be 20 miles thick. This inner hull served as
space armor to protect the occupants of this huge spacecraft
in their journeys through the universe.

(4) THE EVIDENCE THAT THE MOON SHOWS SIGNS OF
HAVING BEEN HOLLOWED OUT AND REINFORCED (SPE¬
CIFICALLY, THE DARK CIRCULAR SEAS, THE SO-CALLED
MARIA)

The Soviet researchers are convinced that the flat areas
or plains regions of the Moon, called seas (maria) because
once people on Earth thought they were actually covered
with water, are in reality made up of metallic rock—evi¬
dence of an artificial outpouring from the Moon’s interior.
These dark, level areas, which can easily be seen from Earth
on a clear night when the Moon is full, are actually loaded
with dark mineral ores like titanium and iron, along with
other rare metallic elements.

Three of these huge dark spots form the so-called Man
in the Moon: the Sea of Rains, which makes up the right
eye, the Sea of Serenity, and the Sea of Tranquility, the
left eye.

The Soviet “spaceship” theorists point to the strange
discovery of great amounts of metallic elements in the rock
samples brought back from these lunar seas—such metallic
elements as titanium, zirconium, chromium, and the highly
refractory elements yttrium and beryllium—all of which
are mechanically strong and resistant to high temperatures.

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THE OUTER METALLIC HULL
OF A SPACECRAFT?

Vasin and Shcherbakov point out:

‘This is the perfect kind of material out of which to
fashion and reinforce a spacecraft. Such metals were used
not only in Spaceship Moon’s inner hull but its outside
exterior shell to withstand the rigors of their long space
odyssey.

“The metals were chipped from the armor-plate and
fused with the loosely packed dirt and rocks in the regions
around where they hit by the super-hot meteorites to form
rocks.”

PROTECTIVE COVERING OF THE
SPACESHIP MOON?

One reason Vasin and Shcherbakov suspect that the
Moon has such inner and outer spaceship shells made out
of strong metallic elements is simply that although massive
meteors and even huge asteroids have crashed into the
Moon by the millions—some of them but a few feet across
and others over 100 miles in diameter—and although they
struck like explosive missiles with the force of many tons
of TNT, they merely dented the outer shell of rock and
dirt. How come? The Soviet scientists point to a study done
by a fellow Russian of the expected depth of Moon craters
created by such fierce impact. Professor Stanyukovich’s
study concluded that these celestial missiles should have
penetrated to a depth equal to four to five times their own
diameter (24-30 miles at least). Yet almost invariably
Moon craters, even those 100 miles or more across, are a
mere mile or two deep at most.

Something underneath the Moon’s layer of rock and dust
stopped them when they began to penetrate. The metallic
particles in lunar samples indicate this was a shell of
metallic rock which the meteors and other heavenly missiles
crashing into the Moon could not penetrate.

Another anomaly is that, despite their huge size, many
lunar craters are convex—not concave, as we would expect
them to be if huge meteors exploded into mere rock and

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dirt. Again, it was the tough protective shell that prevented
this.

(5) THE MYSTERIOUS MASS CONCENTRATIONS (MASCONS)
INSIDE THE MOON

Strange, unexplainable mass concentrations exist under
these mystifying maria. These puzzling areas exist in the
fiat, circular plains regions and were discovered to exert a
heavier or stronger pull of gravity than the other areas of
the Moon.

The reason for this, claim Vasin and Shcherbakov, is
simply that something must exist there at the bottom of
these maria that causes this heavier pull: “the stocks and
the cement-metallic like repair materials still stored beneath
those regions and the many pieces of heavy repair equip¬
ment. The concentration of all this weight under the cir¬
cular lunar ‘seas’ would be enough to make the pull of
gravity greater,” the Soviet scientists speculate.

A SCIENCE-FICTIONAL THEORY
WORTH CONSIDERING

These are the five major areas of evidence persuading the
two Soviet scientists that our Moon might be a spaceship.

Although this theory is unquestionably intriguing and
even perhaps to some extent plausible in some respects, the
evidence the Soviet scientists marshaled in support of it is
hardly compelling.

As the two Soviet scientists concluded their own scien¬
tific paper in Sputnik:

We have put forward in this article only a few of
the reasons—unfortunately the evidence is so far only
circumstantial—for our hypothesis, which at first
glance may appear to be crazy.

A similar “crazy” idea was put forward in 1959 by
Professor Iosif Shklovsky, an eminent scientist [also
connected with the Soviet Academy of Sciences], in
relation to the “Moons” circling around Mars. After
carefully weighing the evidence he concludes that they

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are both hollow and are therefore artificial satellites,
[Shklovsky later discarded this theory.]

We feel that the questions we have raised in connec¬
tion with our Moon provide sufficient food for serious
thought on the matter; the result may be the illumina¬
tion of many lunar riddles.

Now, of course, we have to wait for direct evidence
to support our idea. Or to refute it.

Probably there will not be long to wait.

Five years ago, when a student of mine brought to my
attention the Sputnik article detailing this “crazy” theory,
I rejected it offhand as a piece of sheer science fiction.
Finally I decided the idea would be an intriguing vehicle
for a science-fiction novel and began to research everything
we had learned about the Moon from our space program.
I soon was shocked to find out that all the evidence both
from American and Soviet lunar programs and explorations
supported the crazy spaceship theory.

So what I started to write as science fiction I ended up
writing as scientific fact. Undoubtedly some people, even
after reading my first book, Our Mysterious Spaceship
Moon t still consider it to be just that—science fiction.

But after years of intensive research I still continue to
discover facts and evidence that indicate clearly that the
Soviet scientists are right. After reading this sequel on this
all-important subject we are convinced you will agree.

Let us now proceed to devote a chapter to each of the
five areas of evidence the Soviet theory delineates. Let us
objectively look at the latest findings garnered from both
lunar programs and let the scientific evidence fall where it
may. I think, however, that you will agree with me that,
surprising though it may be, the evidence in favor of the
spaceship theory is impressive—enough to warrant serious
consideration by the scientific community of what has to be
the most far-out, most science-fictionish theory ever con¬
ceived by the mind of man.

But deep students of life recognize that invariably the
science-fiction theories of yesteryear have become the sci¬
entific facts of today.

This someday may be the case with this mind-boggling
and far-reaching theory of Spaceship Moon.

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/

One asked why men should think there was a world
in the moon? It was answered because they were
lunatics .

— Jest Book

Now , my suspicion is that the universe is not only
queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can
suppose •

—John B. S . Haldane

FIVE __

MAN’S OWN SPACESHIP WORLD?

Undoubtedly most people when they first hear about this
theory will think that its authors must have rocks in their
heads. But such a startling theory should not be auto¬
matically rejected just because on the face of it it seems
impossible.

Let us illustrate. Consider this seemingly wild theory that
many NASA scientists strongly believed in before man
went to the Moon. Would you believe that any scientist
connected with our Moon program actually believed that
rocks from our neighboring world existed on Earth before
our astronauts brought some back here to our planet?

Dr. Dean Chapman did, and so did many of his outstand¬
ing colleagues at NASA. They were convinced “Moon
rocks” had come to Earth long before the Apollo astronauts
brought any here. Crazy, you say?

Chapman could demonstrate quite convincingly that cer¬
tain small blobs of black glassy rocks called tektites, which
are found scattered from Australia to Southeast Asia, actu¬
ally splashed to Earth when the great Tycho Crater was
formed by a gigantic asteroid in recent selenological times.
Chapman is no amateur but a professional scientist—an
aeronautical engineer who is an expert in the field of space.
He helped design the heat shield that protected the Amer¬
ican astronauts’ reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on space
flights.

Many other outstanding scientists, including Dr. Gene
Shoemaker of NASA, agreed with Chapman’s basic theory.

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“The earth is strewn with lunar debris,” claimed Shoe¬
maker. A meteorite striking the Moon at tremendous speed
can hit with such force that it throws Moon rocks and dust
into outer space, away from the light, one-sixth-gravity pull
of the Moon. This Moon debris drifted freely through
space, until our larger Earth swept up these “sprays of
moon stuff,” as Shoemaker calls it, and they eventually
landed here to become part of the planet.

Before our manned lunar program got underway our
space agency actually made great efforts to find such
“Moon meteorites.” Dr. Hugh E. Horton of the Manned
Spacecraft Center in Houston tells a story about this pro¬
gram, which was called Project Moon Harvest. One of the
places they concentrated their search on was the normally
rock-free agricultural fields of the Midwest.

One investigator was looking for rocks in these fields
one day when he was asked by a curious old farmer what
he was looking for. The scientific researcher answered:
“WeTe looking for Moon rocks—that’s what you might
call it.*’

The farmer flashed a smile of ridicule and replied:

k

“Well, fella, have you looked inside your head lately?”

Undoubtedly many people will say the same about this
Soviet spaceship theory—they’ve got rocks in their head,
Moon rocks! But as we shall see, anyone who closes his
mind without at least considering the evidence—and there
is much—will miss perhaps the most significant scientific
discovery of modern times, if not indeed of all time!

Admittedly, the author himself was guilty of unwarranted
skepticism. I was convinced that the manned Apollo trips,
which our scientists had hoped would solve once and for
all the riddle of this rock in our skies, would furnish us
with all the answers. Surprisingly, they turned out to spawn
only more mysteries. And, shockingly, all these mysteries
uncovered by NASA scientists and indeed scientists the
world over are understandable only in terms of the Soviet
spaceship theory.

Still, I remained skeptical. Hollowing out and converting
such a huge planetoid as our Moon into a spaceship that
could traverse the universe seemed to me beyond the pale
of believ ability.

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THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE?

While it is true that the idea of a huge, hollowed-out
spaceship fashioned by human ingenuity and technology
into a vast cosmic ark and sent to travel through the uni¬
verse is not new among science-fiction writers, the idea
that any group of intelligent beings could actually restruc¬
ture a world the size of the Moon was totally beyond my
comprehension.

Surprisingly, however, I have learned that our scientists
have been writing for an amazingly long time about this
very possibility: someday journeying to the stars in such
“inside-out” worlds.

Among the first in our century to come up with such a
mind-boggling idea was Professor J. D. Bernal, who back in
the twenties, in his classic work The World, the Flesh and
the Devil , suggested that entire colonies of human beings
might one day be hurtling through the universe in such
giant arks, living in completely enclosed inside-out-type
worlds on an endless odyssey through space—just as we
travel on our Spaceship Earth, only not locked to one
particular star, in endless circuit around our Sun.

Some imaginative science and science-fiction writers,
such as Arthur Clarke, are convinced that man’s destiny
lies out there among the stars, actually believe that someday
such worlds may become a commonplace reality.

In fact, a few have even been bold enough to suggest
that in the distant future more humans will spend their
existence journeying through the universe in such spaceship
worlds than have so far sojourned on Spaceship Earth. Hun¬
dreds of billions, in their view, will be born, live, love, and
die in such worlds—more than the total previous human
population that has existed on Earth.

Back in the fifties famed science-fiction entrepreneur
Hugo Gernsback’s intriguing magazine Science Fiction
Plus: Preview of the Future carried an article (April 1953
issue) written by a Dr. Leslie Shepherd, scientific advisor
to the British Interplanetary Society, who projected the
possibility of fashioning such a thousand-year ark from a
huge asteroid. Inside such a spaceship world entire gen¬
erations of humans would voyage among the stars, “a

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voyage whose end would be seen only by generations yet
unborn.”

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Isaac Asimov, well-known science and science-fiction
writer, put forward similar ideas in a magazine interview
about man’s future. (Strange Stories, Amazing Facts.)
Asimov claimed that it is almost certain that man will
spread his kind through the galaxy—if we survive the
critical problems that face our Space Age world. Someday,
asserts Asimov, we will have to go—in the distant future
our Sun will become unstable and flare up into a nova.

“The most practical way, barring new kinds of technical
advances that are hard to foresee, is to build large ships
that are self-contained ecologies—small, self-contained
worlds—and just send them off, not with any special desti¬
nation in mind. Every once in a while, one of them will
come across a world that can be colonized.”

Asimov even thinks that such worlds will (as we have
noted) be made out of asteroids. This space optimist be¬
lieves that man will eventually colonize millions of worlds
as he travels throughout the universe in such hollowed-out
spaceships. He states unequivocally that man will encounter
other intelligent beings in these endless space odysseys.

A SPACESHIP WORLD CIRCLING JUPITER?

Shockingly, Arthur Clarke believes that he has discovered
such a spaceship world in our own solar system. In his
book Voices from the Sky (Harper & Row, 1965) he re¬
veals:

“Dr. Shklovskii’s stimulating theory [that a moon of
Mars is hollow] appeals to me because some ten years ago
I made an identical suggestion concerning the innermost
moon of Jupiter. In a story called ‘Jupiter V’ I pointed out
certain peculiarities of this satellite and developed the idea
that it was a giant spacecraft, which ages ago had entered
the solar system and then been ‘parked* in orbit around
Jupiter while its occupants went off in more conveniently
sized vehicles to colonize the planets.”

Apparently the Soviet scientists Vasin and Shcherbakov
are not the only researchers who have suggested such a
bold theory. Yet despite these claims, personally we found

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their assertion that an alien technology could have hollowed
out such a huge orb as our Moon was just too incredible
to believe. So we remained skeptical.

Then I discovered that our own scientists have conceived
of building a similar spacecraft for travel to distant stars
someday. And our space engineers have even formulated
plans and written books promulgating this idea of futuristic
interstellar space travel. One of America’s most imaginative
scientific minds, Dandridge Cole, in his mind-boggling
book Islands in Space (Chilton Books, 1964; written with
Donald Cox), suggests that the vast distances and time
involved in projected star travel could never be accom¬
plished through the cumbersome, limited “horse-and-
buggy” type of vehicle, the rocket ship.

However, there is a way, Cole suggests, for man some¬
day to get to the stars. His plan is to capture a huge
asteroid or planetoid ranging near Earth and, with the tech¬
nology that would be available to us in the near future,
fashion it into an artificial, hollowed-out world.

So it is not beyond the pale of possibility, I discovered,
that some superior and advanced race of alien beings capa¬
ble of a greatly advanced technology—obviously vastly su¬
perior to any we have at our present stage of evolution—
would have hollowed out this huge orb and turned it into
a similar unique inside-out world, then powered their new
cosmic home, filled with farms and factories, schools and
homes, and whatever else would be necessary for their own
peculiar civilization to begin the endless trek through the
universe. Undoubtedly they fortified the unique world
spaceship which was to be their home for generation upon
generation, for—who knows—maybe century upon cen¬
tury, even millennium upon millennium.

Fortified it? Certainly, for the gigantic meteors, asteroids,
and other celestial missiles which they would undoubtedly
from time to time encounter as they traveled through space
could have wrecked and destroyed their unique spaceship
world. So in their fortified, metallic inner hull, with their
spaceship filled with the necessary provisions in an enclosed,
self-cycling, self-sustaining world, they headed their arti¬
ficially constructed sphere—which to* all outward eyes
would appear to be just a huge asteroid—through the track¬
less realms of space, on what must certainly have been one

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of the greatest odysseys ever conceived or taken in the
entire universe!

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If the Soviet spaceship theory is correct (and we shall
soon see that all the Apollo evidence backs it up), an un¬
known intelligent race of beings did precisely this billions
of years ago. It staggers the mind to believe there existed
beings capable of such a greatly advanced technology—
especially that long ago. Obviously, even then, at the outset
of their journey, they were vastly superior to us today. It
could be they were forced to create a home for themselves
when their sun began to die (as all stars must) or their
planet home was faced for some unknown reason with
extinction. Such an eventuality would lead us to take a
similar step.

How did they accomplish the feat of making a spaceship
world? The same way, probably, that Cole suggests for our
own space program. They undoubtedly captured this huge
planetoid (or perhaps one circled their planet already).
Then they proceeded, with a technology that we as yet
cannot divine, to hollow out this huge orb and transform
it internally into a unique inside-out world, perhaps some¬
thing like what Cole envisions. (See picture.)

Then they took their new cosmic home on their great
star trek through the universe. Most importantly, the
Soviet scientists are convinced they fortified their inner
home with some tough inner hull—probably made out of
alloys of metal of some kind. Naturally, to withstand the
rigors of their great space odyssey that spaceship hull would
have had to be super-strong. And what are the super-tough
elements known to man? Titanium, chromium, zirconium—
to name three. They are corrosion- and heat-resistant ele¬
ments. Though they are comparatively rare on Earth, they
are surprisingly plentiful on the Moon. Why? It could be
as the Soviet scientists theorize: evidence of their artificially
reinforced hull and surface shell.

It is interesting that we are just now using more and
more of these materials ourselves because of these ad¬
mirable qualities. Not only for lining electrical furnaces,
but for supersonic jets and spacecraft. Zirconium, also
plentiful on the Moon, though a rare element on Earth, is
strikingly unaffected by neutrons, so plentiful in atomic
wastes.

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Is this proof that indeed a super-strong hull exists inside
the Moon, made out of these super-strong elements, which
lunar alien beings used to fashion and strengthen their
spaceship world? Hardly. But as we shall see, rather con¬
vincing evidence indicates that such a hull exists inside
the Moon.

The major point here is that the very fact that some of
our own scientists and engineers are conceiving and plan¬
ning to build a similar spaceship world to travel through
space to the stars makes the Soviet spaceship theory sud¬
denly plausible.

A common reaction to our first book delineating the
Soviet spaceship theory was the objection: “Why would
any beings go to such lengths to build such a huge space¬
craft? It seems preposterous.”

To answer this objection we must point out that for
interstellar space travel one must face the fact that the
dimensions of the universe are incredible. Light, the fastest
entity known to man, can traverse trillions of miles each
year. Yet, for all its speed, it takes light 4.3 years to trek
the vast gulf that separates us from the star nearest Earth,
Alpha Centauri—a distance of 25,000,000,000,000 miles!

Most scientists at NASA are convinced that this probably
is farther than man will be able to travel in the foreseeable
future. And, some are convinced, farther than man ever
will.

Many scientists doubt that man will ever conquer inter¬
stellar space to reach even the closest stars. The distances
are just too vast. How would one ever develop a rocket
ship that could hold enough food, fuel, and other supplies
for such an immense journey? It would have to be a cosmic
Noah’s Ark whose dimensions would be on the order of
our own Earth or Moon.

Precisely. Our Earth is a spaceship in a sense, moving
through a tiny corner of the cosmos. Only our planet is
locked in orbit around the Sun, an average star which is
also traveling through the universe.

The planet Earth is like a dog on a leash. Perhaps the
planetoid Moon was once a similar world.

Another important problem frequently brought up in
interstellar travel considerations is the psychological stress

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of any long voyage through space. But to travel through
space as we do now, on a world similar to our own; or per¬
haps inside a world, would eliminate this problem. For the
two spaceships would be very similar—except on the inside-
out world the horizon would rise above one instead of
curving away, as it does on our exteriorly inhabited Space¬
ship Earth.

The more one thinks about the plausibility of Spaceship
Moon, the more one becomes convinced that what appears
to be science-fiction instead turns out upon examination to
be based more on scientific fact.

If you find yourself flinching at this wild suggestion, you
should call to mind the words of the great Niels Bohr, the
father of atomic energy, who once observed, when told by
a colleague about a way-out, lunatic theory:

“Your theory is crazy. But not crazy enough to be true!”

Perhaps this Soviet spaceship theory is!

When l say a thing is true , I mean that I cannot help
believing it. I am stating an experience as to which
there is no choice .

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

SIX _

PREDICTIONS BASED ON THE
SPACESHIP THEORY

The two bold scientists who postulated the spaceship theory
ended their thesis with this statement:

We feel that the questions we have raised in con¬
nection with our Moon provide sufficient food for
serious thought on the matter; the results may be the
illumination of many lunar riddles.

Now, of course, we have to wait for direct evidence
to support our idea. Or to refute it.

Probably there will not be long to wait.

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In this fashion Alexander Shcherbakov and Mikhail
Vasin, Soviet researchers, concluded their case.

In our upcoming chapters we shall begin to take a look
at their, theory, examining the evidence that has poured
back from the lunar programs, both Soviet and American.
But before we delve into the evidence to see if it backs up
the spaceship theory or wrecks it, let us do a little “lunar”
armchair quarterbacking. If you had read this shocking
treatise in the Soviet publication Sputnik back in July of
1970, as I did—in which two orthodox scientists claimed
that our Moon was not a completely natural world but a
huge, hollo wed-out planetoid; that it had an inner shell of
metal which served as its hull; that it had a reconstructed
outer shell which was partly metallic rock; that there was
evidence of artificial construction in its interior; that after
traveling as a spaceship for eons through the cosmos it was
powered and “steered” into orbit around our world at some
undeterminate time in the past by some unknown aliens—
your mind too would have boggled.

If at that time you were a lunar expert with an open mind
anxiously awaiting proof or disproof of this wild theory,
you could have sat down and predicted what scientists
should find on the Moon before our astronauts completed
their lunar voyages. You can do it now.

As you prepare to make your own Moon odyssey
through this book, check these commonsense “predictions”
of what scientists could expect to discover about our Moon.
See if they do not come true. You will be amazed at how
Spaceship Moon lives up to expectations, how it appears
to show the very characteristics that one would expect
from a hybrid world—a natural asteroid “constructed” and
converted into a spaceship!

Since our two Soviet spaceship theorists claimed that the
Moon is a huge, hollowed-out world, then the following
should have proven true:

(1) If it really is hollowed out and a natural asteroid
restructured into an inside-out world of a spacecraft, then
orthodox scientists could be totally confused by what they
find. Nevertheless, despite discovery of seemingly con¬
tradictory facts and evidences, it should definitely show
clear proof that it is a hollow world. However, because

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of all kinds of artificial construction in the interior, the
data supporting the hollow-Moon contention might seem
somewhat confusing and to some extent be masked. Density
studies and gravitational field studies nevertheless could
give us tantalizing clues of what most orthodox scientists
consider to be impossible—a natural hollow satellite.

(2) If this alien asteroid was refashioned into an ar¬
tificially hohowed-out spaceship, then it should show
evidences of massive, intense melting, undoubtedly many
miles in depth.

(3) A corollary of this: Some scientists, such as Dr.
Harold Urey, were convinced before man went to the Moon
that it must have been formed “cold”—that it was too tiny
an orb to have generated sufficient heat to have been a hot
body in space and produced extensive melting or volcanic
eruptions to the exterior. Other scientists disagreed, claim¬
ing that evidence pointed definitely to a “hot” Moon. All
scientists felt that going to the Moon would prove con¬
clusively one way or the other which theory was correct.

However, if the Moon was a natural asteroid which had
been artificially restructured, then both sides should find
evidence to support their theories. Both should be able to
garner facts and evidence each contradicting the other, yet
each supporting their respective orthodox positions. Unless,
of course, both consider the possibility that they might be
looking at an artificially restructured spaceship. Then seem¬
ing contradictions become suddenly enlightening evidence.

(4) If these aliens did pour out much internal lava, either
to hollow out or later to reinforce their spaceship, then the
outside surface areas of the Moon would contain material
that originally was deep within the body of this world. This
should give a strange picture to lunar experts, making it ap¬
pear as if the Moon had been made “inside out.” More¬
over, if the alien used metallic elements in reconstructing or
reinforcing the outer shell, the lunar samples that the as¬
tronauts brought back might contain pure metal or metal
particles with evidence of artificial processing or manufac¬
turing, perhaps even giving evidence of a superior tech¬
nology beyond even that of modern Space Age man.

(5) If the moon is a huge hollow sphere and if the in¬
terior of this world really has a metalic-type spaceship hull,
as the Soviet scientists claim, then seismic results of Apollo

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spacecraft crashed into it (such as lunar modules and rocket
stages) should produce different, even puzzling vibrations
and tremors. If the hull is metallic these tremors could be
of extremely long duration. In fact, these man-made
crashes could make this huge metallic sphere vibrate like a
huge bell or gong. Also, the vibrations should carry ex¬
tremely far, being conveyed not just great distances but, if
the hull goes all the way around the Moon, as the Soviet
reseachers say, carried completely around the entire orb.
Unhe&rd of in a natural world, but something to watch
for.

(6) If these alien “Moonmen” used materials such as
iron and titanium in creating this inner hull or shell, as well
as in forming the maria, then large areas of the Moon
should be devoid of metals while inner areas and the metal-
rich maria should prove to have them in great amounts.

(7) If high-temperature metals were used in these con¬
structions, which require intense heat to melt, the Moon
might give evidence of this. What could alien beings have
used to produce such high temperatures? Probably exten¬
sive concentrations of radioactivity, properly used. If this
is true, then the Moon may give evidence of being much
more radioactive than Earth. Secondly, since this lava was
poured out onto the surface of the Moon, these outer areas
should contain high concentrations of radioactive elements,
maybe even intense hot spots. This would appear to be
puzzling to orthodox scientists, but evidence of this alien
formed world that our Soviet theorists posit should be
found on the moon.

(8) If these Soviet scientists are correct in their surmise
that the Moon as an artificially formed spaceship came here
from somewhere else, then the Moon will present a different
face from what scientists expect. Its bulge, for instance,
may even be on the side that has never faced us—the back
side of the Moon—instead, as scientists have always as¬
sumed, on the near side!

(9) If the Moon has an internal atmosphere in its hollow
regions, probably to sustain life, then the outer surface
might be extremely dry but at times could give evidence of
a great amount of water or other gases. The Soviet scientists
theorize the inner part of this alien world is probably filled
with “gases required for breathing, and for technological

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and other purposes,” and some of this gas might be vented
outward “through cracks appearing in the armour plating.”
If so, these gases could be detected outside, on the sur¬
face. They could very well have a high water vapor con¬
tent, so that this dry, dry Moon might yet show surprising
amounts of water vapor.

(10) Similarly, although earlier Moon probes indicated
that the Moon has almost no magnetic field, if the Moon
did travel through the cosmos as long and as widely as the
Soviet spaceship theorists think it did, then Moon rocks
might have been affected by other global and solar magnetic
fields and evidence of this would be “frozen” into Moon
rocks. Our scientists could therefore be in for a big mag¬
netic surprise!

(11) If the Moon did come from afar and has not al¬
ways been circling Earth, then the make-up of the Moon,
its composition, could be much different. It might even
contain elements our planet Earth does not have! More¬
over, it might give evidence of being older than the oldest
rocks we have found on Earth. Finally, if it traveled
through different parts of the universe, trekking through dif¬
ferent star systems of differing ages, then its surface should
be covered with different rocks and particles of widely
varying ages. And it is even possible that if those portions
of the universe were younger than the original “home” of
the aliens, we could have lunar crust being much older
than many of the rocks lying on its surface! What to scien¬
tists would appear to be an impossible order of things.

(12) Finally, if the Moon is such a refashioned planetoid
or asteroid with all kinds of artificial construction in its in¬
terior, then seismic records would probably yield some
perplexing results—not the least perplexing of which might
be identical signals trackings. For artificial construction
might on the Moon’s interior give a seismic picture that
could be virtually the same each and every time. On the sur¬
face, to scientists not tuned into the artificial-Moon hy¬
pothesis, this might appear impossible.

In conclusion, lunar experts might find many puzzling,
contradictory conundrums on such a world. Many im¬
possible findings and discoveries could lead scientists in gen¬
eral to find the Moon more of a mystery now than before
we examined it at close range. Because of such contradic-

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tions and conflicts, scientists might find it impossible to
weave a unified theory that would explain this mystery
world, the Moon.

But in light of the spaceship theory the mysteries would
dissolve. But among orthodox scientists, overwhelmed by
the multiplying mysteries and perplexing problems, a cyn¬
ical few might conclude that such a “craizy” world cannot
exist. For without the spaceship moon hypothesis, they will
not be able to explain its. origin or its nature; they will not
be able to begin to understand it.

By now, you know how strange a place the Moon is,
how it should not even be here . Its origin is even
stranger .

—George Leonard

SEVEN _i_

WAS OUR MOON “POWERED” AND “STEERED”
INTO ORBIT AROUND OUR EARTH?

Consider these tantalizing questions:

• Why is it that how the Moon came to our skies remains
“the biggest puzzle of them all,” according to NASA’s own
testimony?

• Why do leading scientists confess that they do not know
where the Moon came from or how it got here—that, as one
Nobel prize-winning scientist admitted, “All explanations
are improbable”?

• Why does one NASA expert admit: “It seems much
easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than its
existence”?

• Why do our leading scientists today facetiously suggest
that the Moon does not exist at all, since there seems to be
no way for it to have originated?

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• Why do some leading scientists refer to the Moon as a
cosmic freak of nature —claiming that it is too big,, too far
out to be the natural satellite of Earth?

• What evidence exists that our Moon is not the true,
natural satellite of Earth?

• Why are scientists today unable to comprehend or ex¬
plain the most commonly accepted theory among lunar
experts, which claims that our Moon was naturally “cap¬
tured”?

*

• Why do most experts in celestial mechanics claim that
the capture of our Moon in the gravitational field of our
own planet is virtually impossible or at the very least
highly improbable?

• How does our Moon’s stable, well-behaved circular orbit
indicate that it was not naturally put into orbit around
our world?

• Why do some leading scientists claim that the Moon was
put into such an orbit by “some unknown force”? What is
that force?

• Why is the Moon so precisely positioned in the heavens
that to an observer on Earth its disk size exactly equals
the Sun’s disk size? How does this make eclipses possible—
the only planet that we know of that has them?

• Why do scientists find it incredible that our Moon has
such a precise position and why is this not understandable
except through the Soviet Spaceship Moon theory?

• Why does a knowledge of celestial mechanics and the
experience from our own space launching of satellites indi¬
cate that the Moon was “powered” and “steered” into orbit
around the planet Earth?

Now let us turn to the evidence . • •

THE MYSTERY OF THE MOON'S ORIGIN

Victor Hugo, the great French author, once called the
Moon “the kingdom of dreams, the province of illusion.”

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It has been just that for scientists. They figured that the
Moon could very well be the Rosetta Stone of our universe,
the key that would unlock the secrets of the origin of our
solar system as well as furnish many, many secrets of the
cosmos. That was before we went there.

So far it has been anything but that. So far the Moon
has only served to confound and perplex scientists. For we
are now more confused about its origin and its nature—
about where and when and how the Moon came into being
and what its make-up essentially is—than we were before
we went there.

THE MOON—A PRE-APOLLO PUZZLER

Admittedly, before man traveled to our nearest neighbor
in space, all science was in a quandary about this strange,
enigmatic world circling our Earth. Where it came from
and how it got here were questions our scientists had no
certain answers to.

Three major theories were .developed by scientists of
Earth to explain how the Moon came into being—or at least
how it came to be circling Earth. First the hypothesis was
advanced that it evolved along with Earth, both being born
out of the same cosmic cloud of dust and gas about 4.6
billion years ago. The second theory is that our Moon
fissioned or split off from Earth after our planet’s birth
eons ago. The third is that the Moon was a latecomer,
formed independently and far from our Earth, then “cap¬
tured” and locked into orbit around us as it was passing
through our planet’s gravitational field.

The majority of Earth scientists thought that our Moon
was formed with the planet out of a cosmic cloud of dust
and gas about 4.6 billion years ago. A smaller segment of
the scientific community thought it might have once been a
part of our planet. George Darwin, son of the famed evo¬
lutionist Charles Darwin, theorized that our Moon was
split off from our planet in an act of celestial fission. Famed
astronomer William H. Pickering adopted a form of this
theory when he theorized that it might have been tom out
of the Pacific area early in our Earth’s evolutionary career.

Although theoretically this vast Pacific basin is large

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enough to hold a body as great as the Moon, and although
there does exist around the rim of the Pacific a volcanic,
earthquake “ring of fire,” believed by some scientists to be
evidence of the birth pangs of Luna leaving the womb of
Mother Earth, most researchers rejected this theory, since
immense difficulties of celestial mechanics made it nearly
impossible. The young age of the Pacific itself militated
against this kind of fissioning off of our Moon, for this
would have had to have taken place at an early stage of
Earth’s evolution. On this all scientists agree. Thus, it could
not have been wrenched from this area even if scientists
were to assume the celestial mechanics were possible.

Furthermore, the death blow appears to come from the
Moon itself. Evidence extricated from our Apollo expe¬
ditions indicates that the composition of the Moon is much
different than that of Earth. If the Moon were a child of
Earth, fissioned off from the Pacific (or any other area),
then we would expect its composition to be about the
same. It is not.

These very same findings seem to militate against the
Moon’s evolving with our own planet and forming out of
the same cosmic cloud of dust and gas. And the fact that
further evidence indicates that the Moon may be older than
Earth also deals this theory a crushing blow.

This leaves only the capture theory, an idea that was not
too well accepted by scientists before Apollo, since astro¬
physicists and experts in celestial mechanics claimed that
such an eventuality was highly improbable, if not virtually
impossible.

Even if scientists were to assume that the improbable
capture could have happened, that the Moon would have
ended up with its present circular orbit is just too incredible
to believe. For a natural celestial capture—and this astro¬
physicists stress—would have produced a highly elliptical
instead of a circular orbit. How then to account for the
Moon’s circular orbit around our Earth? No scientific
theory adequately does—except, of course, the unorthodox
theory of two orthodox scientists of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences who maintain that the Moon was powered and
steered into orbit around Earth.

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WHERE THEN DID THE MOON COME FROM?

‘This is the biggest puzzler of them all,” observes a
NASA document. And one to which not only NASA scien¬
tists but experts the world over freely admit there is at
present no solution—despite all our efforts, all our data,
facts, and figures.

The truth is that today scientists are unable to come up
with any adequate theory that embraces all the known,
and often apparently contradictory, facts about our Moon.
No one has discovered a way to solve all the conundrums
and perplexing puzzles. No one has worked out a theory
that will unify all the conflicting data, molding them into
a sensible hypothesis. No one save the Soviet spaceship
theorists, that is.

Everything points, however, to the fact that our Moon
came from elsewhere in the universe, as we shall see. One
of the few scientists to hold that this was so even before
Apollo was Dr. Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner.* Urey
held that precisely because our Moon was from another
part of the cosmos, the Moon would necessarily be as fas¬
cinating an alien world as any that man could find. As Urey
put it: “Stepping on the Moon would have the same interest
as stepping on Mars, or the asteroids, or Venus.”

We point out that if the Soviet spaceship theory is correct
then it would be of even greater interest! The greatest one
that man could possibly imagine!

DOES THE MOON EXIST AT ALL?

\

Unbelievably, this has come to be a joke among lunar
scientists today. Why go that far, even if it is in jest? Be>-
cause, as Dr. Robin Brett notes, NASA scientists “weighing

* Back in the 1960s Urey asserted: “Is it possible that two bodies
like the Earth and the Moon could have accumulated near each
other in space from debris of some kind, and have markedly different
densities. So far as we know there is no reason why the more dense
material should accumulate into a large object, die Earth, and the
less dense material should prefer to accumulate in the small object.
Thus, accordingly as an explanation for two planets so near each
other appears to us today to be very improbable.”

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what has been learned” do not seem to be able to account
for the existence of our Moon.

“All three theories have weaknesses in the light of our
present knowledge,” he explains. “The composition of the
returned lunar samples makes it difficult to derive them
from anything like the composition of the Earth’s mantle.
This, therefore, makes the fission theory extremely unlikely.
And if the Moon was formed as an identical twin planet
with the same composition as the Earth’s mantle, the same
argument applies against that theory. The capture theory
presents difficulties in celestial mechanics and is regarded
as statistically improbable. It seems much easier to explain
the non-existence of the Moon than its existence.” (John
Wilford, We Reach for the Moon , W. W. Norton, 1971.
Emphasis added.)

Dr. William K. Hartmann, senior scientist at the Plane¬
tary Science Institute in Arizona, points out in Astronomy
magazine: “Each of these main pre-Apollo themes seemed
to have a fatal flaw. Some scientists were driven by frus¬
tration to facetiously suggest that perhaps the Moon doesn’t
exist at all , since there seemed no way for originating it”
(Emphasis added.)

IS THE MOON A COSMIC FREAK OF NATURE?

Many scientists in modern times have come to regard
the Moon as a cosmic freak of nature. Why? Because by all
cosmic laws, they point out, the Moon should not be orbit¬
ing our planet Earth!

Why do leading scientists like Isaac Asimov assert this?
Simply because our satellite seems to be too big for our
planet earth. It is a whopping one-fourth of our planet’s
size, and proportionately is the largest satellite that we
know of orbiting any world. For though a satellite of
Jupiter, for instance, is actually larger in size, the Jovian
satellite Ganymede is only one twenty-seventh the size of
the planet it circles.

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THE MOON IS TOO FAR OUT

Not only is our Moon too large, but scientists also point
out it is actually too far out in its orbit to be a natural
satellite of our planet. The prolific science writer Isaac
Asimov, who is a scientist in his own right, asks: “What in
blazes is our own Moon doing way out there ?” (Emphasis
added.)

“It’s too far out to be a true satellite of the Earth. It’s
too big to have been captured by the Earth. The chances
of such a capture having been effected and the Moon then
having taken up nearly circular orbit around our Earth are
too small to make such an eventuality credible.” ( Asimov
on Astronomy, Doubleday, 1974.)

Scientists in general would agree. But most remain con¬
founded by this conundrum. Our Moon should, not be there
in circular orbit around our Earth, and many insist it should
not be there period! Not perhaps as a natural world, but an
artificially “steered” world, yes. Grudgingly all scientists
must admit that the problem disappears in light of the
Soviet spaceship theory.

THE MOON NOT A TRUE SATELLITE
OF EARTH?

Isaac Asimov concludes that our Moon is not, as is
commonly believed, the true satellite of our planet. He
claims that if it were “it would almost certainly be orbiting
in the plane of Earth’s equator and it isn’t.”

There are still others powerful reasons why the Moon
cannot be a true satellite of Earth, insists Asimov. He
claims the Moon should not be orbiting our planet because
of what he calls “the tug of war” ratio.

“The Sun attracts the Moon twice as strongly as the
Earth does.” ( Asimov on Astronomy.) This ratio of the
Moon’s size and distance in relation to the Earth and to the
Sun indicates that it should have been gone long ago. The
Sun should have won this tug of war and pulled the Moon
away, but somehow it hasn’t.

Asimov claims that our so-called natural Moon gives
every indication that it is not a true satellite of ours. He

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also rejects the possibility of its having been captured. This
seems to lead to the horns of a dilemma, as he himself
points out:

“But, then if the Moon is neither a true satellite of the
Earth, nor a captured one, what is it?” ( Asimov on
Astronomy .)

Asimov tries to slip off the horns of this dilemma by
postulating that the Moon is really a planet in its own right.
The problem here is that all the evidence from our Apollo
and the Soviet flights indicates that our Moon is too differ¬
ent in make-up to be a double planet, so this does not
appear to be the correct theory either. Further, if evidence
that the Moon is older than the Earth is correct, then it
must have come here from somewhere else in the universe.
That brings us back to the only other possibility (aside from
the spaceship theory): namely, that the Moon was cap¬
tured. And this leads us back to the problems of how it
came to be captured by our Earth and how it could have
ended up in its present circular orbit.

Surprisingly, more and more scientists, despite all these
difficulties, are now considering this theory that the Moon
and our Earth somehow evolved separately, far from each
other, and our Moon somehow came to be captured by
Earth. But this is hard to accept, not only because of the
previously raised objections but also because of the unique,
strange position the scientists find the Moon in today. And
here we may discover another hint that indicates that our
Moon did not “just happen” to “fall” into a chance orbit
around our planet.

A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE OR EVIDENCE
OF ALIEN PRECISION?

The disks of the Sun and the Moon appear to be just
about equal as viewed from Earth. Of course, the apparent
size of the Moon and the Sun depend upon their respective
distances as well as their actual sizes. The Moon is only
2160 miles in diameter, while the diameter of the Sun is
864,000 miles. That makes the Sun's diameter approxi¬
mately 400 times greater. To put it another way, the ratio
of our Moon’s disk to the Sun’s is 1:400.

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However, our Sun is 93,000,000 miles away and the
Moon only about a quarter of a million miles away.
Strangely enough, this works out to about the same ratio—
approximately 1:400. So the distance just about cancels
out the size, and this is why the tiny Moon appears to the
viewer on the Earth to be about the same size as our gi¬
gantic Sun.

This is shown remarkably during a total eclipse. Isaac
Asimov makes an observation about this truly amazing
situation, which he calls “coincidence.”

In his book Space , Time and Other Things (Doubleday,
1965) he notes: “What makes a total eclipse so remarkable
is the sheer astronomical accident that the Moon fits so
snugly over the Sun. The Moon is just large enough to
cover the Sun completely (at times) so that a temporary
night falls and the stars spring out. And it is just small
enough so that during the Sun’s observation, the corona,
especially the brighter parts near the body of the Sun, is
completely visible.”

What does Asimov make of this remarkable piece of
astronomical good luck? “There is no astronomical reason
why the Moon and the Sun should fit so well. It is the
sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth among all the
planets is blessed in this fashion.”

THE SHEEREST OF COINCIDENCES?

The chances of the Moon’s being in a position so exact
as to just equal the disk of the Sun in relation to the planet
Earth is—pardon the pun—astronomical. To paraphrase a
quote from Asimov, which he uttered about the possibility
of the Moon’s having been, captured by Earth and ended
up in a circular orbit: The chances of the Mooris just
happening to be in this position are too incredible to be
credible.

This “accident” is just too astronomically farfetched to
be truly an accident. In light of the Spaceship Moon theory,
however, all these striking aspects of our Moon’s strange
orbit around us—its circular, nonequatorial orbit plus the
other strange characteristics—seem to make it clear that
our nearest neighbor in space is where it is not by accident.

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Admittedly, if the Spaceship Moon theory is accepted,
all these problems disappear. If intelligent beings put Space¬
ship Moon in orbit around Earth—which we are confident
wifi soon become clear and convincing to you—then the
reason why the Moon lies in precisely this “remarkable”
orbit is clear as day. To sum it up simply: It was “put”
there!

One physicist at a Midwestern university, who has be¬
come convinced that our Moon may well indeed be a
spaceship, remarked on this strange position of the Moon:
"It’s almost as if these aliens were waving a flag at man and
saying—* Look here! Here is proof that the Moon is more
than just a mere moon!* 99

NO OTHER MOON MODEL IS CORRECT

But despite this intriguing evidence, the vast majority of
orthodox scientists adhere to the old theories. Without the
spaceship theory to resolve the kind of difficulties we have
pointed out, the majority of scientists at the last major
world meeting of lunar experts, The Fifth Lunar Con¬
ference, officially adopted the capture theory that holds that
our Moon was gravitationally “kidnapped” by Earth. They
didn’t resolve the difficulties of the celestial mechanics;
they just went ahead and adopted it. Before man went to
the Moon the vast majority of these scientists would not
begin to even consider this far-out hypothesis because of
the immense difficulties it entails.

Dr. Harold Urey summed it all up when he wrote before
the Apollo journeys: “All explanations now offered are
improbable.” He holds that to this day. “I do not know . . .
the origin of the Moon, I’m not sure of my own or any
other’s modeL I’d lay odds against any of the models pro¬
posed being correct.”

Urey himself had leaned toward the capture theory,
although he too had serious reservations about it. For even
if scientists were to grant that the Moon, as a wandering
orb of the outer cosmos, just happened to drift too close
to our planet’s gravitational field, and even if all conditions
were proper for it to be gravitationally caught, it is hard
to see how it could have ended up in its present orbit.

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Such a capture should have produced a rather elongated,
elliptical orbit instead of the nearly circular path the Moon
now follows around Earth. Indeed as the Soviet scientists
insist, it seems that it was steered into orbit around our
planet

A well-known American science writer, William Roy
Shelton, makes this striking observation in his book Win¬
ning the Moon (Little, Brown & Company, 1970), which
focuses in on this problem:

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It is important to remember that something had to
put the moon at or near its present circular pattern
around the Earth. Just as an Apollo spacecraft circling
the earth every ninety minutes while one hundred
miles high has to have a velocity of roughly 18,000
miles per hour to stay in orbit, so something had to
give the moon the precisely required velocity for its
weight and altitude. For instance, it could not have
been blown out from Earth at some random speed or
direction. We found this out when we first began to
try to orbit artificial satellites. We discovered that un¬
less the intended satellite reached a certain altitude at
a certain speed and on a certain course parallel to the
surface of the earth, it would not have the necessary
centrifugal force to maintain the delicate balance with
the gravity of Earth which would permit it to remain
in the desired orbit. (P. 58.)

What force put it into orbit around Earth? If we can prove
that the Moon is hollow, that is also has a hard inner shell
of metal or metallic rock, such evidence would be fairly
conclusive that it is indeed a spaceship. Then the problem
about its peculiar circular orbit disappears.

As Shelton further delineates: “The point—and it is one
seldom noted in considering the origin of the moon—is that
it is extremely unlikely that any object would just stumble
into the right combination of factors required to stay in
orbit. ‘Something* had to put the moon at its altitude, on
its course and at its speed. The question is: what was that
something?” (Winning the Moon, pp. 58—60.)

In light of the Soviet spaceship theory “that something”
that Shelton speaks of is clear. In fact, we should ask not

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just what “that something” was, but who that someone was
that put the Moon around Earth—for it was alien intelli¬
gence Soviet scientists Vasin and Shcherbakov claim, that
put Spaceship Moon in orbit around Earth.

The,author of Winning the Moon concludes:

“Discovering what that something was, given the moon’s
known distance from earth, its known huge relative size,
and its known way of rotating, has occupied astronomers,
scientists, and more recently, engineers in an attempt to
solve one of the most fascinating riddles known to men on
earth.”

We are convinced that a couple of Soviet researchers
have solved this great cosmic riddle. And after reviewing
the array of evidence for “Spaceship Moon” we are con¬
vinced you will agree with their mind-boggling, earth-shak¬
ing theory. Indeed, after reviewing all the arguments mar¬
shaled in this book that prove the Moon to be a vast hollow
world which is in fact a spaceship, you will see how clear
the evidence is that our Moon was “powered” and “steered”
into orbit around our planet Earth.

The moon must be enormously cavernous with an at¬
mosphere within, and at the centre of its caverns a
sea. One knew that the moon had a lower specific
gravity than the earth . . . one knew, too, that it was
sister planet to the earth and that it was unaccount¬
able that it should be different in composition . The
inference that it was hollowed out was as clear as day .

— H. G. Wells (1901)

EIGHT _

IS OUR MOON HOLLOW?

Tantalizing questions:

• How does the Moon’s strange density indicate that it
may be hollow?

• Why does a leading British lunar expert, former head of
the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association,

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conclude: “Everything points to the Moon being hollow
20-30 miles underneath its crust”?

• Why is it that leading scientists agree that a natural
satellite cannot be a hollow object? Why can we then con¬
clude that if the Moon’s interior is hollow, it was artificially
hollowed out?

• Why does a pre-Apollo NASA study done by leading
NASA scientists conclude that the Moon’s motions indicate
that our satellite may be a hollow orb?

• How does the gravitational-field study indicate the fright¬
ening possibility that the Moon might be hollow? Why is
this conclusion “frightening”?

• Why does the density of Moon rocks brought back by
our astronauts indicate that the Moon is hollow?

• Why do man-made crashes of space equipment (lunar
landing modules and spent stages of rockets) into the
surface of the Moon cause the Moon to “ring” like a huge
bell or gong? Why does the Moon vibrate for up to four
hours? Why does this indicate that the Moon is a huge
hollow sphere?

• Why do studies of the Moon’s rotational motion indicate
that the Moon may be hollow?

• What evidence is there that our own space agency carried
out secret studies to see if there were extensive hollows in
the Moon’s interior? Why did they do this?

• Why have translational motion studies of the Moon
(motion of the center of mass) which indicate that the
densest regions of the Moon are nearest its* surface (indi¬
cating that the Moon is hollow) been disregarded? Why are
these scientific objections overcome in the hollow-spaceship
theory?

• Why does all the evidence indicate that our Moon is a
huge hollowed-out orb?

Let us now examine the shocking evidence!

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STRANGE LIGHTNESS OF THE MOON

“Is the Moon hollow?” This happens to be the title of a
chapter in Our Moon , one of the most authoritative books
ever written on the Moon, by H. P. Wilkins, former head
of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Associ¬
ation. It was published in the fifties, more than two decades
before two Soviet scientists postulated their hollo w-Moon
theory.

Dr. Wilkins (who died at the beginning of the Space
Age), one of the world’s leading lunar experts, claimed
that the Moon could very well be hollow—at least to a
great extent. As Wilkins pointed out in the. thirteenth chap¬
ter of his fine book Our Moon: “Everything points to a more
or less hollow nature of the crust of the Moon within some
20 or 30 miles of the surface ” (Emphasis added.)

Shades of H. G. Wells! And strikingly like the Soviet
spaceship theory.

What led Wilkins to his remarkable conclusion?

First of all, the Moon, even before man traveled there,
was known to be only about half as dense as the material
out of which the planet Earth was formed. In fact, the
Moon is only about 60 percent as dense as our own world.
That is, if one were to take a cubic mile of the Moon and
compare its weight with that of a cubic mile of Earth, the
latter would weigh nearly twice as much.

Why? The fact that a given volume of Moon material
seemed to weigh about half as much as an equal volume of
the Earth mystified scientists. How to account for the
difference?

Some of the scientists felt that the answer lay in the fact
that the material out of which our Moon world was formed
was in fact very light and hence weighed only about half
as much.

Some scientists, such as Dr. Harold Urey, felt that the
solution might be that the Moon was without a heavy core,
resulting in a lower overall density. Other equally pres¬
tigious scientists, such as British astronomer Wilkins, opted
for a hollow moon—at least one with huge hollow areas.

In his authoritative study Our Moon the eminent British

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scientist explains his astounding conclusion: “Long ago it
was calculated that if the Moon had contracted on cooling
at the same rate as granite, a drop of only 180F. would
create hollows in the interior amounting to no less than
14 millions of cubic miles.” 'According to Wilkins, it ap¬
pears that our Moon has a great portion that might contain
naturally hollow caverns or regions. He adds: “However, it
is unlikely that the Moon contracted at the same rate as
granite; it is almost certain that nothing like 14 millions of
cubic miles of cavities were formed. . . . Nevertheless,
everything points to the more or less hollow nature of the
crust of the Moon . . . within some 20 or 30 miles of the
surface. It thus appears that hidden from us are extensive
cavities, underground tunnels and crevasses, no doubt often
connected with the surface by fissures, cracks or blow¬
holes.”

Later we shall see that evidence for such openings into
a hollow moon does exist.

Wilkins continues:

“Without going so far as H. G. Wells, who imagined a
strange race of creatures, the Selenites, inhabiting these
hollows, which were however subordinate to an elaborate
system of artificial tunnellings, the cavernous interior of the
world within the Moon must be a strange place. Immersed
in impenetrable darkness and absolute silence, the walls
doubtless studded with numerous crystals, these gloomy
caverns, branching and winding, here and there connected
with the surface by a half choked pit or an open crack, may
contain surprises for the first space-travellers to land on
the Moon.” (Our Moon , pp. 119-20.)

Not the least surprise—if we are to believe the two
Soviet spaceship theorists—could be the strange home of
alien beings themselves!

For if the Soviet theory that the Moon is hollow through
and through is valid, then the Moon must be a spaceship!
All scientists—at least all astronomers—agree with that
conclusion. For from what is known about the way that
worlds evolve, scientists know it cannot be naturally hollow.

Even the conservative astronomer from Cornell Uni¬
versity, Dr. Carl Sagan, admits this. In the early sixties
Dr. Sagan coauthored a book (Intelligent Life in the Uni¬
verse, Holden Day, 1966) with another scientist connected

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with the Soviet Academy of Sciences, astrophysicist Iosif
Shklovsky, who theorized at the time that the moons of
Mars might be hollow and would therefore have to be
space stations.

Sagan agreed: “A natural satellite cannot be a hollow
object.” ( Intelligent Life in the Universe .)

Thus, astronomers are in general agreement that if the
Moon is hollow, then it must have been hollowed out arti¬
ficially! And this brings us around to the Vasin-Shcher-
bakov Spaceship Moon theory.

These two scientists claim that their density study of the
Moon indicates that the Moon could be hollow. In their
scientific treatise they postulate: “If you are going to launch
an artificial sputnik, then it is advisable to make it hollow.
. . . It is more likely that what we have here is a very an¬
cient spaceship, the interior of which was filled with fuel
for the engines.”

Shcherbakov and Vasin observe that the density of the
Moon would indicate it could be hollow: “Why is there
such a big difference between the specific gravity of the
Moon (3.33 grammes per cubic centimeter )and that of the
Earth (5.5 gr.)?” The solution is that the Moon is hollow!

They conclude: “Since the Moon’s diameter is 2,162
miles, then looked at from our point of view it is a thin-
walled sphere. ...”

They point out the precedent for their reasoning: “A
similar ‘crazy* idea was put forward in 1959 by Professor
Iosif Shklovsky, an eminent scientist, in relation to the
‘moons* circling round Mars. After carefully weighing up
the evidence he concludes that they are both hollow and
therefore artificial satellites.”*

AMERICAN-OBTAINED EVIDENCE
BACKS UP SOVIET CLAIMS

Is there any hard, solid scientific evidence to prove that
our Moon is actually hollow and a spaceship?

Surprisingly, even before the Moon manned-landing pro-

* Shklovsky backed down from his hollow-Martian-moons theory
after later evidence indicated that they might not be hollow.

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gram was launched, a NASA scientist had come up with
such evidence!

ANALYSIS OF THE MOON'S MOTION
INDICATES HOLLOW MOON

It was this discovery which helped convince me that
there might be something to this crazy Soviet spaceship
theory. For, frankly, although I was intrigued by the Soviet
hollow-moon theory and even though I admitted it might
be plausible, their evidence was not that convincing. Most
of it, in fact, seemed at best to be circumstantial.

About all I was convinced of was that it might be an
excellent vehicle for an intriguing science-fiction novel,
which I began writing. As I was researching the subject of
the Moon I stumbled across some evidence that jolted me,
I was reading America's Race for the Moon (Random
House, 1962), edited by Walter Sullivan. The book, sub¬
titled Story of Project Apollo , is a collection of scientific
articles on the Moon and our lunar space program.

In this fascinating work I read about a study done by
Dr. Gordon MacDonald of an analysis of the Moon’s
motions. Walter Sullivan noted in his article, “What Will
the Moon Be Like”:

“Even more startling is a report by a leading scientist
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that,
according to an analysis of the moon’s motions, it appears
to be hollow” (Emphasis added.)

Digging out Dr. MacDonald’s study, I discovered his
conclusion:

“If the astronomical data are reduced, it is found that
the data require that the interior of the Moon be less dense
than the outer parts. Indeed, it would seem that the Moon
is more like a hollow than a homogenous sphere.” ( Astro¬
nautics, February 1962, p. 225.)

However, as Walter Sullivan points out, Dr. MacDonald
did not accept the conclusion of his own study that the
Moon is hollow. This outstanding scientist, perhaps realiz¬
ing the truth of the astronomical principle that no satellite
world can be naturally hollow, that there is no such thing
as a hollow planet or planetoid in space that is naturally

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hollow, “does not suggest that the moon really is hollow.”
Says Sullivan: “Rather, he believes something is wrong,
either with the data or the calculations.” ( America’s Race
for the Moon , p. 96.)

In Astronautics Dr. MacDonald spells out why he re¬
jected the hollow-Moon conclusion: “This suggests that
there are inconsistencies either in the reduction of the
observations of the moon’s motions or in the numerical
development of the lunar theory.”

Thus, rather than accept the basic conclusion of the
study, which indicates clearly that the Moon behaves more
like a hollow sphere than a solid body, MacDonald believed
that either something was wrong with the data or there
were inconsistencies in observation.

The thought has since struck me time and again: What
if, privately, NASA scientists and officials actually accepted
the hollow-Moon conclusion and suspected that the Moon
was in fact a spaceship? And that this indeed was the
strong impetus to reach the Moon and find out once and
for all? Buoyed by this knowledge and the evidence that
strange moving lights and objects seen on the Moon by
astronomical observers indicated that the Moon was the
source of the myriads of UFOs flooding Earth skies, both
the Soviet and the American governments, operating in se¬
crecy, launched crash programs to reach this spaceship in
Earth skies.

Of course, this is mere speculation. But not speculation
without foundation—as we have seen.

MY OWN IMPETUS

When I read about the astonishing conclusion of the
MacDonald hollow-Moon report I was mentally staggered.
Naturally this provocative thought began to haunt me:
Could the Soviet scientists be right after all? Is the Moon
really hollow and thus a spaceship?

My curiosity piqued, I set to work. I read through every
NASA scientific document I could get my hands on. After
poring over 15,000 pages of NASA and lunar scientific
studies, I discovered more than 50 major proofs that, in
my view, confirm the Soviet artificial-Moon theory, includ-

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ing several other independent studies that indicate the Moon
is indeed hollow. These range from Dr. Harold Urey’s
negative-mascon concept to Dr. Sean Solomon’s gravita¬
tional-field study.

SOLOMON'S GRAVITATIONAL-FIELD STUDY
INDICATES MOON MAY BE HOLLOW

Dr. Sean C. Solomon of M.I.T. claims that a study of the
gravitational fields of the Moon indicates that it could be
hollow. Solomon concludes his study, which was published
in Volume 6 of the technical periodical The Moon , An
International Journal of Lunar Studies:

“The Lunar Orbiter experiments vastly improved our
knowledge of the Moon’s gravitational field . . . indicating
the frightening possibility that the Moon might be hollow ”
(Pp. 147-65. Emphasis added.)

Frightening? Yes, because if the Moon is hollow it must
have been artificially hollowed out by some alien intelli¬
gence—and that would necessarily make it a .spaceship!

Without question, if it could be established as fact that
the Moon is really hollow, it would be the greatest dis¬
covery in the history of science and the most fantastic that
man has ever made.

HOLLOW LUNAR CAVITIES INSIDE THE MOON?

One outstanding lunar scientist who holds there is evi¬
dence that huge cavities or hollows might exist inside the
Moon is Dr. Harold Urey. He maintains that there are
“negative mascons” inside the Moon, huge areas beneath
which “there is either matter much less dense than the rest
of the Moon, or simply a cavity.” Technical data supporting
this finding were uncovered by Dr. Sjogren, codiscoverer of
the mascons.

French science writer Jean Sendy, author of The Coming
of the Gods (Berkley, 1973), is convinced such under¬
ground cavities exist: “Yes, if my underground base on
the moon exists, this is where it ought to be.” {The Coming
of the Gods.) Sendy is convinced that the Moon is the

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home of the ancient “gods”—as well as modern-day alien
astronauts!

Sendy explains: “. . . if Dr. Sjogren’s study of the data
transmitted by Lunar Orbiters leads to the discovery of
a cavity under the surface of the Moon, and if ‘my* base is
found there, I will be able to say, ‘You see, I was right!*
And I wasn’t right by accident.” (The Coming of the Gods.)

HOW HIGH ARE THE HOLLOWS OF THE MOON?

Whether the Moon is a completely hollow, thin-shelled
or thin-walled sphere or merely has huge hollow areas
like cavities or caverns has not been definitely determined
yet—to our public knowledge, that is. But the Moon surely
behaves internally as if it were hallow, as seismic evidence
clearly shows.

“MOON LIKE HOLLOW SPHERE”

This was the headline of an article that appeared in the
highly respected Science News Letter (April 22, 1961).

The opening statement sums up pretty well this con¬
clusion :

“The Moon is like a hollow sphere, heavier on the out¬
side than on the inside, according to the data from the
Vanguard satellite and theories about the Moon.”

This article’s opening statement seems to be verified by
the latest evidence—a peculiar characteristic of the Moon
rocks Apollo astronauts brought back to Earth.

THE DENSITY OF MOON ROCKS INDICATES
THE MOON MAY BE HOLLOW!

As we have seen, evidence and data scientists obtained
on the density of the Moon long before our Space Age was
launched indicated that our neighboring satellite was very
light and possibly hollow. One of the best clues, therefore,
as to whether this was a valid theory would come from
the Moon rocks themselves.

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In their six trips to Luna our astronauts brought back
almost a short ton of lunar material—837 pounds, to be
exact. I knew the density of Moon rocks would be a major
clue to the make-up and density of the Moon itself* I
searched and searched for accurate data on the lunar
rocks, without success. I found no specific data on their
density published in any of the NASA or lunar journals.

Then I got a revealing letter from another independent
scientific researcher* He told me he had read my book
Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon and was fascinated by the
hollow-Moon theory.

From reading it [the book] I gather that you are
not aware of the most important fact about the moon’s
density. A fact that makes your theory more tenable.
. . . After the moon rocks were analyzed, I looked
repeatedly for data on their densities, but this was not
published. I eventually called Dr. Paul Gast [one of
NASA’s leading scientists, who unfortunately passed
away shortly thereafter] at his home and asked him
what were their densities.

He said they ran from 3.2 to 3.4. Now since the
density of earth rocks averaged from 2.7 to 2.8 moon
rocks were expected to be much lighter. You appar¬
ently saw the astronomers trying to drill about 30
inches with a drill that would easily go through 12 feet
of earthrock (or steel supposedly) and the rocks ob¬
viously got harder and probably denser with depth. In
fact, the authorities now say that the moon is differ¬
entiated, its heavier elements having settled, so one
will have to assume that densities increase. How can
they when the moon’s density is no greater than the
surface rocks unless the moon is hollow. . . .

This would verify the earlier data that the Moon is heav¬
ier on the outside than on the inside; as Science News puts
it, “the moon is like a hollow sphere.”

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NASA VERIFICATION

Although specific data on the density of Moon rocks
brought back to Earth were next to impossible to find,
veteran science reporter Richard Lewis, who was among
the NASA inside circle, got some information on the den¬
sity of lunar rocks. He pointed out in his book The Voyages
of Apollo (Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976)
that lunar material brought back from Apollo 11 and 12
sites “were denser than Earth soils.”

Again, how could this be? How could the Moon rocks
be denser than Earth’s (assuming of course that this gen¬
eral characteristic of denser lunar rocks held up in general
for the entire Moon—and apparently it did), when other
equally convincing and valid data indicate the Moon ma¬
terial, based on its global weight, is only about half as dense
as that of Earth? Unless, again, the weight of the Moon is
in its outer shell and the interior of the Moon is hollow!

A clear and distinct possibility and, considering all the
other evidence, we think a clear probability!

THE MOON RINGS LIKE A HUGE
HOLLOW SPHEREt

Another world of evidence exists to prove that the Moon
is hollow—and it comes from inside the Moon globe
itself.

Through scientific equipment and tests NASA and the
world have learned a great deal about the Moon’s interior.
Scientific stations were set up on the Moon’s surface which
included sensitive seismometers that radioed a world of
data back to Earth. The first were set up by Apollo 11
astronauts in the Sea of Tranquility, and another by Apollo
12 astronauts in the Sea of Storms. They were extremely
sensitive—in fact, a hundred times more sensitive than any
used on Earth, and able to record tremors almost one mil¬
lion times smaller than vibrations which human beings
make. The sensitive seismometers even recorded the foot¬
falls of our astronauts.

The first man-made crash directed at the Moon to divine
its interior occurred after Apollo 12 astronauts had re-

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turned safely to their command ship and the lunar module
ascent stage was sent smashing into the Moon’s surface,
thus producing in effect an artificial moonquake. The shock
waves of this hit staggered NASA scientists—the Moon
vibrated for over 55 minutes. Furthermore, the kinds of
signals recorded by the seismometers were utterly different
from any ever received before, starting with small waves,
gaining in size to a peak, and then lasting for incredibly
long periods of time. A wave took seven to eight minutes
to reach the peak of impact energy and then gradually
decreased in amplitude over a period that lasted almost an
hour. It was claimed that even after an hour the minutest
reverberations still had not completely stopped.

Amazingly, the LM hit the lunar surface about 40 miles
from the landing site. The results were astonishing. All
three seismometers in the package recorded the impact,
which set up a sequence of reverberations lasting more than
an hour. Nothing like this had ever been measured on

Earth.

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The impact occurred at 4:15 p.m. CST, November 20,
1969. A news conference had been scheduled to begin at
4:30 p.m. And when it did, strangely enough, the Moon
was still “ringing” as the scientists—all of them seismic ex¬
perimenters—arrived at the news center right out of their
laboratory.

Maurice Ewing, co-head of the seismic experiment, told
the afternoon news crowd of the stunning event, inform-
ing them that the Moon was still ringing. He confessed
he was at a loss to explain why the Moon behaved so
strangely.

“As for the meaning of it,” Ewing explained, “I’d rather
not make an interpretation right now. But it is as though
one had struck a bell, say, in the belfry of a church a
single blow and found that the reverberation from it con¬
tinued thirty minutes.”

Actually, unbeknown then to Ewing, the reverberations
were to last for about twice that long.

Dr. Frank Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech¬
nology was a bit more open and frank.

“We have been exploring for a hypothesis walking over
here and usually when we speak too soon we are wrong.
But let me say that none of us have seen anything like this

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on Earth. In all our experience, it is quite an extraordinary
event. That this rather small impact . . . produced a signal
which lasted thirty minutes is quite beyond the range of our
experience. So, whatever it turns out to be, I think it will
represent a major discovery, completely unanticipated about
the Moon.”

However, the remarkable thing is that this is exactly what
would have been expected in light of the Vasin-Shcherbakov
hollow-Moon theory. If the interior of this spaceship world
really has a metallic-type hull and is really hollow, the
seismic results of an Apollo spacecraft crashing into it
should have produced different vibrations and tremors,
probably of extremely long duration. The crash of a lunar
module should make this metallic lunar ball vibrate like a
huge bell. And it did!

Our own scientists were really at a loss to adequately
explain the puzzle. As Richard Lewis puts it in his book The
Voyages of Apollo “it was clear at the time of Apollo 12
that Apollo investigators had ‘discovered’ a new kind of
planetary structure in the Moon. How it evolved, as well
as the details of its nature, represented one of the most
elegant mysteries of the twentieth century.” (P. 124.)

Oh, they did attempt various explanations, which of
course did not fit the seismic data.

Dr. Press of M.I.T. (now an advisor to President Carter)
was one of the first to come up with some kind of explana¬
tion. He suggested that the LM impact might have touched
off “a cascade of avalanches and collapses over a very
large area.”

This was not indicated, however, by the seismic data.
For this indicated long, sustained response. The waves
reached a peak between seven and eight minutes with
hardly the slightest weakening evident at all. It took an
amazing twenty minutes before the waves declined to half
their strength. Then they gradually declined further, hang¬
ing on tenaciously for about an hour! This does not fit
“the series of avalanches” explanation that Press offered.*

* The Apollo II seismometer left on the Moon in July 1969 had
picked up about 100 similar seismic events which, though smaller,
nevertheless had caused the Moon to resonate for up to twenty
minutes. At first scientists were skeptical. As Dr. Gary Latham
said: “No one was prepared to accept the fact that they might be

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Another scientist suggested that the crash could have
thrown lunar dust and debris so high into the atmosphere
that it took almost an hour to come back down. Yet an¬
other proposed that “the LM itself might be to blame.”
This strained explanation held that the empty spacecraft
perhaps did not hit straight down into the Moon but rather
smashed like a crashing plane, bouncing across the Sea of
Storms “like a flat stone on a stream, dropping off parts
as , it went.”

However, as Science News (November 29, 1969) pointed
out in dismissing all these weak explanations:

“Such a series of blows, however, would be unlikely
to produce the sustained, large tremors recorded by the
seismometer; the same argument applies to the falling-
moon-debris theory.”

RINGING THE LUNAR BELL

After the miracle of Apollo 12, scientists, particularly
lunar seismologists, anxiously awaited the next big Moon
crash. When Apollo 13’s third stage was propelled out of
Earth orbit into a Moon trajectory and by radio command
sent crashing into the Moon, it hit with an impact equiva¬
lent to 11 tons of TNT. It hit about 87 miles from the
site where the Apollo 12 seismometers were located.

The Moon gave a repeat performance—it shook, seis-
mologically speaking, for more than 3 hours. In fact, 3
hours and 20 minutes, to be exact! Moreover, the vibrations
of that artificially induced moonquake traveled to a depth
of 22-25 miles. Scientists again were astounded. Again
NASA seismologists were dumbfounded and could not
come up with a satisfactory explanation.

But again, if the Soviet theory is correct, then such long
reverberations are exactly what would be expected. Take
any hollow, hard-crusted sphere, especially one that has a
metal shell, strike it a hard blow, and it will behave exactly
as our Moon behaved.

due to impacts,'* Then came the Apollo 12 impact, which caused
the Moon to vibrate for nearly an hour. Comments Latham, “now
we think differently.”

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THE MOON REACTS LIKE A HUGE GONGi

The next big blow to hit the Moon was that of Apollo
14’s S-IVB, which was also boosted into a lunar crash
course and by remote control sent smashing into the
Moon’s surface. The moon behaved predictably, in the
same way.

As a NASA science publication {Apollo 14: Science at
Fra MaurOy 1971, p. 17) tells us: “ The Moon reacted like
a gong. For about three hours it vibrated and these vibra¬
tions traveled to a depth of from 22-25 miles.” (Emphasis
added.)

This despite the fact that the vehicle crashed more than
108 miles away from the Apollo 14 instrument site!

Similarly, the crash of the lunar landing craft after the
Apollo 14 astronauts had returned safely to the command
module Kitty Hawk caused the Moon’s bell to be rung.
The empty ascent stage, which weighed 4850 pounds, hit
with a force equal to the explosion of 1600 pounds of TNT.
This time the tremors reverberated around the Moon for
90 minutes.

This NASA publication says: “This minor moonquake
marked a scientific milestone. It was the first time any
event, manmade or natural, was recorded by a network
of two seismic stations on the Moon.”

Later observations (made possible when three different
seismic stations on the Moon recorded a man-made impact
—Apollo 12, Apollo 14, and another left by Apollo 15 as¬
tronauts at the Hadley-Apennine landing site) indicated
that seismic signals traveled over 700 miles from the
Apollo 15 impact site to a seismometer on the Sea of
Storms, that great distance away, and then all the way
to the seismometers at the Fra Mauro highlands. Scientists
admit that on Earth similar signals produced by such an
impact probably would not have traveled more than a
few miles at the most. Nor would they have lasted more
than a minute or so at the most. Certainly not for hours.

Unquestionably, the Earth’s interior, which is solid
rock, is different from the Moon’s, which seems to be
more like a hollow sphere. Dr. Latham, principal investiga¬
tor of the seismic experiment, admits that the Moon’s
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found no counterpart on our planet Earth. Apparently this
is because the Moon is so different interiorly.

In fact, scientists readily admitted that seismic evidence
does strongly point to the fact that the Moon is rigid and
cold on the interior, with no molten lava core. On Earth
similar seismic waves are damped out and absorbed by the
planet’s great mass and by the Earth’s molten core. Scien¬
tists know, however, that a hollow Moon—either com¬
pletely hollow or with just an inner hollow layer all the
way around—would behave as the Moon does .

All man-made crashes into the lunar surface producing
moonquakes ended up with similar results. Indeed, after one
impact the Moon rang for over four hours!

However, impressive as these hits were, they do not
prove in the orthodox scientist’s mind that the Moon is
completely hollow. At least across the center. Other seismic
tests have produced peculiar results, leading a few to
believe that the Moon may be solid to the center. How¬
ever, if the Moon is a spaceship, then, as expected, it would
have all kinds of artificial structures on the inside, includ¬
ing, as we shall see, two seismic bfelts that at least one lead¬
ing scientist from NASA says could be two huge girderlike
blocks of metal 1000 kilometers long! Would not such
constructions foul up any conclusions about whether the
Moon is solid or has a core?

One problem is that the present seismometers on the
Moon were placed too close together. If they were farther
apart they would be much more effective in accomplishing
the feat of proving once and for all whether the Moon is
hollow. As one astronomer from a Midwest observatory
told a radio audience, discussing my book Our Mysterious
Spaceship Moon } our satellite might very well be hollow.
However, the evidence from present seismic equipment is
unfortunately not quite clear or conclusive, simply be¬
cause they are too close together to get a true readout be¬
tween the primary (p) and secondary (s) waves.

If the Moon is completely hollow across the center then
the primary waves would not cut completely across the
center of the Moon, but the secondary waves would race
around the outer shell. The time difference could establish
the elusive proof that the Moon is (or is not) hollow.

The answer to this question, of course, hinges on an-

other key question: Does the Moon have any core?
Science reporter Richard Lewis said that “Urey and others
insisted that the Moon could not have a core because of its
lower density, but some geophysicists were not convinced/'
(The Voyages of Apollo.)

Scientists were hoping to have proof once and for all
through the impact of a large meteor whose reflected waves
would indicate whether a core did or did not exist.

Fortunately, scientists got a once-in-a-million-years mir¬
acle when a large meteor, which Apollo scientists dubbed
“a whopper/' slammed into the Moon on May 13, 1972,
with the energy equivalent of about 200 tons of TNT. But,
surprisingly, although the impact sent seismic shock waves
down through the crust and well into the Moon’s inner
layers, the “whopper” did not send any reflective waves
back.

Dr. Latham, NASA’s director of the seismic project,
commenting on this unusual turn of events, said: “We have
been searching for a signal—energy which would have gone
down to the core, and bounced back up as a reflector.”
The whopper should have gone down to the lunar core
and bounced back up, but it did not. Scientists wondered
why it didn’t. Could it be another indication that, as Dr.
Urey suspects, the Moon has no core? That it is in fact, as
the Soviet scientists tell us, hollow? (Science News, July
1972.)

Dr. Urey does tell us that “transverse seismic waves are
not reflected back because it is felt that the soft structure
of the middle of the Moon absorbed them.” However, as
we have seen, there is much evidence that the Moon is
rigid at great depths. Could it not be that these shock waves
are not reflected back simply because the Moon is wholly
or at least in part hollow? Or are our scientists having great
difficulties divining the inside of the Moon because it is not
entirely natural? Irving Michelson pointed out in Man On
the Moon (Eugene Rabanivich, ed. Basic Books, 1969)
that “it is a curious fact that although the moon’s rotational
motion has been very accurately known for nearly three
centuries, attempts to infer values of the inertia moments
have been notoriously unsuccessful.” Couldn’t this be the
reason?

It should also be remembered that if the Moon really is

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a spaceship scientists must expect all kinds of artificial
construction on the interior. (Later we shall see there is
evidence of this.) Hence, the nature of the reflective waves
and seismic waves in general would be very confusing.
And, as we have seen, that has been exactly the case.

For instance, an early motion study indicated that the
Moon was hollow. The coefficient of moment of inertia,
which is critical for understanding the density distribution
of the lunar interior, yielded an early value (0.6) implying
a hollow Moon. Subsequent studies have conflicted with
this result. But again we point out that an unknown variety
of internal constructions could be upsetting the correct
data. This should be taken into consideration in arriving at
any correct conclusion about the true nature of the Moon.

For many studies indicate that the Moon is hollow. Its
extremely low density indicated it might be. H. P. Wilkins
claimed it was, at least to a large measure. The early Mac¬
Donald motion studies and the later Solomon gravitational-
field studies indicated it might be. Impact shock waves
which vibrated through the Moon for up to four hours
indicate that it is hollow. So though the problem remains
unresolved, any further studies should take the Vasin-
Shcherbakov hollow-Moon theory and possible artificial
spaceship construction into consideration in arriving at a
true picture about our Moon.

Amazingly, there is some indirect evidence that our
space agency officials are taking the “hollow” problem of
the Moon more seriously than they are letting the public
know. For it is interesting and, we believe, important to
note that Dr. Farouk El Baz, one of NASA’s leading scien¬
tists before he went to the Smithsonian Institute as director
of space research, claims that NASA suspected hollows did
indeed exist within the Moon and admits that our govern¬
ment ordered and carried out certain experiments on the
Moon to determine if they did. He claims that such experi¬
ments, which were not publicly announced, were held in
the strictest secrecy. Says El Baz: “There are many un¬
discovered caverns suspected to exist beneath the surface
of the Moon. Several experiments have been flown to the
Moon to see if there actually were such caverns.” {Saga,
March 1974, p. 36.)

No results have ever been announced. In fact, even the

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experiment was kept secret—at least until El Baz made his
public statement in an interview with Saga magazine, one
of America’s leading journals, which is in the forefront of
UFO investigation, and has also been effective in penetrat¬
ing our government’s secrecy in the space field.

Why all this secrecy? Is it because our government and
its space agency, along with our military, consider (con¬
trary to public knowledge) that hollow areas exist inside
our Moon—that possibly alien bases, as some suspect, exist
in these underground Moon hollows? Did alien beings take
advantage of these hollows to create, as Soviet scientists
speculate, millions more square miles? Or did they perhaps
hollow out the central area of the Moon completely?

In the book Man On the Moon Irving Michelson points
out that “from studies of the translational motion of the
moon” (i.e., motion of its center of mass) there exists evi¬
dence of “the non-uniformity of the internal mass distribu¬
tion within the moon,” which indicates that “the densest
regions of the moon are nearest to its surface, in what has
been termed the ‘hollow moon’ hypothesis.” But, objects
Michelson, “the apparent density inversion needed to pro¬
vide consistency in the theory of the moon’s orbital mo¬
tion, termed the lunar theory, is not only unfamiliar but
wholly unacceptable on a physical-mechanical basis—a
hollow shell of this type would necessarily collapse.”

In answer to Michelson’s objections, naturally it is “un¬
familiar,” for it is not natural—we are dealing with a world
that is not completely natural but partially artificial. Of
course, it is unacceptable on a natural physical basis. But
this is something that apparently orthodox scientists never
thought of (until our Soviet theorists, that is): that we
may be dealing with a hybrid world—part natural and part
artificial.

As to the last objection, that a hollow Moon is “wholly
unacceptable . . . [because] a hollow shell of this type
would necessarily collapse,” we point out that the Moon,
as we shall see, has an extremely strong metallic inner
shell—the hull of a spaceship! And so Michelson’s objec¬
tions fall.

And so the evidence of a hollow Moon stands!

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The surface of the Moon is a dark gray, gunmetal
gray. It looks like molten lead that has been shot with

BBs .

—Astronaut James Irwin, Apollo 15

NINE _

DOES THE MOON HAVE A CONSTRUCTED
OUTER SHELL?

• What are the strange circular dark areas of the Moon
and why do they not seem to be placed randomly across
the surface of the Moon?

• Why is the far side of the Moon so different from the
near, or Earth, side? Why are the strange lunar seas virtu¬
ally nonexistent on the Moon’s far side?

• Why is the Moon so pockmarked with craters and, more
significantly, why are they so uniformly shallow? Why do
two Soviet scientists think that this indicates that the Moon
has an artificially constructed outer shell?

• Why are the maria so loaded with metals and metallic
elements—titanium, yttrium, and other refractory metals
which require high temperatures to melt?

• Why do Soviet researchers reach such a drastic conclu¬
sion that the Moon’s maria are in fact the evidence of the
hollowing-out and reinforcing process in the reconversion
of the natural world into a huge spaceship by unknown
alien beings?

• Why do our scientists find it extremely difficult to ac¬
count for the high amount of metals like iron and titanium
in the Moon’s dark areas?

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• How do the scientists account for the fact that the
Moon’s outer surface somehow reached more than 4000 °F.?

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• Why do scientists even today find it impossible to ac¬
count for the formation of the maria? Why do all the
theories have fatal flaws?

• Why do some scientists suggest that the Moon’s maria
were formed by a special kind of volcanic action that sci¬
entists of Earth are not familiar with?

• Why does the Moon’s surface give evidence of formation
by artificially induced volcanic action?

• How do scientists account for the pure metallic elements
found in lunar samples (such as pure titanium, used on
Earth in the manufacture of spacecraft and supersonic
jets), which seem to be in such great abundance in the
maria?

• How do scientists account for the shocking and un¬
believable discovery of pure metallic particles in lunar
samples? How do they explain the presence of pure iron
particles, especially pure iron that does not rust? Why does
this indicate a manufacturing process from a technology
well beyond man’s?

• How do scientists account for the fact that they cannot
reproduce lunar materials even in our most advanced scien¬
tific labs?

• Why are all the maria so metal-rich?

• How do scientists account for the fact that on the Moon
denser materials are on the surface? How do they explain
how heavier materials can flow to the top of the Moon?
Is this not seemingly impossible unless artificial construc¬
tion methods were used?

• Why does the Moon have such a thick outer shell, melted
down to great depths? How does one get a 65-kilometer-
thick crust without melting most of the Moon? And if melt¬
ing occurred—as evidence indicates it did—then how could
the Moon’s interior today be so relatively cool?

• How does the Moon give indications that “some force
or forces” rearranged the Moon’s outer surface? What
force brought about the significant redistribution of the
Moon’s crustal interior?

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Anyone who peers at the Moon through a telescope is
impressed at how different this satellite world is from the
lush verdurous and water-covered Earth. The barren Moon
appears to be dominated by two rugged features: crater and
maria, those strangely level, circular dark areas that Earth-
bound man once mistakenly thought were oceans of water.
Though we now know that these dark, strangely level
regions appear to be oceans of lava, man is still at a loss
to adequately explain how they came into existence or even
what they are. Even before we went to the Moon some
guessed that these weirdly dark splotches, which remind
one of freshly cleaned blackboards, are actually loaded
with heavy dark mineral ores, such as iron and titanium.

Our sea-laden world is three-fourths covered with water.
The Moon is covered with seas of apparently once molten
rock. The question is, where did all the lava come from
that created these immense oceans of lava covering a third
of the Moon's near side? An extremely hot interior? Or
from impaction of huge meteors or asteroids?

Still another mystery lurks here, raised by the Moon
probes—that of the differing far side of the Moon, which
has no extensive maria.

THE MOON'S HIDDEN FACE

Not once within mankind’s memory has the far side of
our Moon shown its face to Earth, and most scientists as¬
sumed it would be no different from the side that is fa¬
miliar to us. While it is true that a few thought it would be
radically different, it is clear that they were speculating
wildly. And some were really wild.

For instance, Hanson, a Danish astronomer of the eigh¬
teenth century, came to believe that the far side was in¬
habited. In studying the movements of the Moon, he had
found one tiny discrepancy that he could not explain: The
Moon did not appear uniform in density to him. To ex¬
plain this Hanson theorized that one hemisphere of the
Moon was slightly more massive than the other. He con¬
cluded that all the atmosphere of the lunar world (which
he insisted the Moon had), as well as all its oceans and
seas, had been drawn to the far, hidden side. He also was

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convinced that this side could very well be inhabited and
probably teemed with cities.

Hanson was, of course, mercilessly ridiculed by his
contemporaries for his way-out notions. One anonymous
English poet even penned some fancy lines in his honor:

Oh Moon, lovely Moon with the beautiful face,
Careering throughout the bound’ries of space,
Wherever I see you, I think in my mind—

Shall I ever, O ever, behold your behind?

Most scientists still remained convinced that the far side
of the Moon was no different from the side they had
studied over the centuries. Then came the Soviet space
probes which first photographed it, and the world was
amazed to discover how different the far side was. No
serious scientist had expected to find any cities or Moon-
men, but what piqued their curiosity and raised several
more tantalizing questions was how startlingly different the
back side really was. It was far more rugged and far more
pockmarked with craters and riddled with mountains. And,
strangely enough, it had few maria, or seas of lava.

Why should these massive, dark plains be so prevalent
on the Earth side and so lacking on the far side? This
strange dichotomy has mystified scientists since man began
to extensively see and photograph it. The mystery still
baffles scientists today.

The inference, of course, was that these huge, circular
seas could not have been formed by chance meteor and
asteroid impaction; these bodies would necessarily have hit
at random all over the Moon. The evidence seemed instead
to indicate that the maria on the near side were formed by
a welling up of volcanically produced lava from deep
within the Moon. And here the problems really began.

Another conundrum was the fact that the far side has
far more rugged and mountainous exterior, with many more
craters. And this brings us back to the mystery of the
craters themselves, their strange shallowness and the prob¬
lem of just how they were formed.

Most scientists are convinced that lunar craters were
blasted out by celestial bombs, all right, hitting with the
force of many tons of explosives. But they were of the

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atomic variety in explosive equivalency—huge meteors,
asteroids, or comets. The explosive force of a huge meteor
smashing into the Moon at speeds of up to 30,000 miles
per second would be equivalent to millions of tons of TNT
—actually dwarfing to insignificance the tiny atomic blast
that left Hiroshima a desolate crater. Undoubtedly in some
cases the powerful explosions on the Moon were hundreds
of times greater than the first bombs detonated on Earth.

It has been calculated by Soviet scientists that a meteor
of one million tons is equal in explosive force to a single
megaton atomic bomb, which is about fifty times the Hiro¬
shima size. Yet we know that gigantic meteors weighing one
million tons have clobbered the lunar surface, leaving only
broad vast shallow holes in the Moon’s skin.

Why this should be has been a puzzle to astronomers.
Vasin and Shcherbakov suspected that the answer to this
mystery lay in the Moon itself. The consistency of shallow¬
ness of Moon craters puzzled them. Despite their size—
some of them fantastically large by Earth standards—al¬
most without exception even the greatest gaping holes are
surprisingly shallow. Even craters *100 miles or more across
appear to be no deeper than a mile or two. Why?

What could be the reason for this strange phenomenon?
Certainly meteors 50 to 100 miles in diameter blasting into
the Moon and exploding with the force of millions of
atomic bombs should have torn deep holes in its surface.
The terrific impact of a meteor dozens of miles across
colliding with our Moon should have produced an explosion
so fierce that holes many miles deep would have been
gouged out. But nowhere has any celestial missile done this.

Even conservative estimates of expected results indicate
that meteors 10 miles or more in diameter—larger than
most that have hit Earth—should have penetrated to a
depth equal to four to five times its diameter. Yet the
deepest crater we know of on the Moon is the Gagarin
Crater, which, though 186 miles across, is less than 4 miles
down. Most are like Clavius, which is a whopping 146
miles across but only 2—3 miles deep, and this despite the
fact that all of Switzerland and Luxembourg could be
placed inside it, it is so large. There is no question that
whatever hit here should have gouged a great hole scores
of miles deep. Why didn’t it? ^

OUR MYSTERIOUS “LOP-SIDED” MOON
WITH ITS INTERIOR IRON-RICH LAYER

SCHEMATIC CROSS-SECTION

OF THE MOON

Shows: (i) How moon is lop-sided

(2) Iron-rich inner layer—

Could this be reinforced inner hull
made from metallic-rich rock?

Adapted from Physics Today , March 1974.

The answer according to some scientists lies in the fact
that most craters on the Moon were not caused by celestial
bombardment but are volcanic in origin. However, the vast
majority of lunar scientists having studied lunar crater
characteristics held forth the impact formation of the origin
of craters. Dr. Harold Urey, one of the world’s most
knowledgeable lunar experts, stated the majority opinion
in 1956 when he claimed that the vast majority were caused
by celestial crashes.

A SOLUTION TO THE SHALLOW-CRATER
PROBLEM?

Our Soviet spaceship speculators suggest that the answer
to the shallow-crater mystery lies in the Moon’s make-up.
The shallow craters, Vasin and Shcherbakov insist, would
perhaps be strange to a normal satellite, but the Moon is
a “remade” world with an inner and outer shell of “armour
plating.”

They note: “if one assumes that when the meteorite
strikes the outer covering of the Moon, this plays the role
of a buffer and the foreign body finds itself up against an
impenetrable spherical barrier. Only slightly denting the
20 mile layer of armour plating, the explosion flings bits
of its "coating’ far and wide.

“Bearing in mind that the Moon’s defense coating is,
according to our calculations, 2.5 miles thick, one sees that
this is approximately the maximum depth of the craters.”

Much of this outer portion of the Moon’s armor pro¬
tection, these spaceship theorists point out, is furnished by
the maria—those strange huge dark areas of filled-in
metallic rock that can be seen with the naked eye on any
clear night that the Moon is visible in Earth skies.

These huge circular seas or maria help form the familiar
Man in the Moon which many Earthlings have come to see
in our companion world. On our very first trip to the Moon
we landed in the left eye of the Man in the Moon—the
Sea of Tranquility. The Sea of Rains makes up the right
eye.

Some of these strange dark seas are immense in size.

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The Sea of Storms, for instance, is over 2,000,000 square
miles, which makes it larger than the entire Mediterranean
Sea! The Sea of Serenity, on which we landed our Apollo
spacecraft, is about the size of Great Britain and France
put together. And considering that the Moon is a much
smaller world than Earth—about one fourth the size—
makes them much more impressive in size.

Another maria, the Sea of Rains, embraces an area that
in the United States would extend in one direction from
Michigan to North Carolina and from South Carolina and
Georgia to Arkansas and Iowa in the other. This vast sea,
which is about 750 miles across, covers more than 340,000
square miles. Before we went to the Moon most scientists
speculated that this immense sea was produced when an
asteroid the size of the island of Cyprus collided with the
Moon and exploded there.

Although some of the people in the past thought these
dark areas of the Moon were huge seas, most modern
scientists felt that they were in fact huge seas of lava.
Others were skeptical of this theory that they were formed
from immense lava flows which poured out of the Moon’s
extremely hot interior when the lunar globe was very young.
Where could all the lava come from, many objected, to
create such immense oceans of lava that cover one third
of the Moon on the Earth side? Many scientists did not
believe that the Moon ever had gotten that hot inside,
maintaining that the Moon was formed cold. Why did
they hold this? Because they calculated the Moon was too
tiny a world to generate the kind of heat necessary to pro¬
duce such vast lava flows. Some of these scientists were
convinced that the answer to the formation of the maria
lay in the celestial missiles that bombarded the planetoid—
meteors, comets, and asteroids which, exploding upon con¬
tact, threw vast quantities of liquid lava over the face of
this world. Yet there existed strong evidence that maria
were formed by lava welling up from its interior. More¬
over, the maria do not appear to be randomly scattered
across the Moon’s face; most of them lie in one quadrant
of the Moon’s Earth side. This militated against the
random-peppering theory of impactists.

And this brings us to yet another mystery of the maria.
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their distribution. Many are circular in form, conforming
strangely enough to the general spherical shape of this mys¬
tery world. Their distribution was also unusual—almost all
of the Moon’s maria on the Earth side of the Moon and
four fifths of them on the far side lie in one quadrant—in
the right-hand section or area of the Moon.

Scientists on Earth were still arguing how the maria on
the Moon got there when our astronauts landed. They were
in for some shocking surprises, uncovering evidence that
indicated to the two Soviet scientists that the maria were
not natural formations.

Shcherbakov and Vasin became convinced from this
evidence that the maria were in fact created by artificial
means, probably by “Moon beings” pouring out huge inner
portions of lunar lava and metal not only to hollow out
portions of their inner world but to reinforce their metallic
armor and prevent it from being damaged by the “impact
of celestial torpedoes” crashing into it from time to time.

Vasin and Shcherbakov wrote: “The Moon’s dry seas
are in fact areas from which the protective coating was
tom from the armour cladding. To make good the damage
to these vast tracts . . . [they flooded] the areas with its
‘cement’ resulting in flat stretches that look like seas to the
terrestrial observer.

“The Moon’s population presumably took the necessary
steps to remedy the effects of meteorite bombardment, for
example, patching up rents in the outer shield covering the
lunar shell. For such purposes a substance from the lunar
core was probably used, a kind of cement being made from
it. After processing this would be piped to the surface sites
where it was required.”

WHY THE MARIA ARE SO LEVEL

If these spaceship theorists are right then a number of
mysteries of the Moon’s maria would be resolved—for
instance, how they were formed and why they have such
seeming nonrandom distribution. Another puzzlement
would then become understandable too—the strange level¬
ness of the seas. For as science reporter Henry Cooper
points out in his book Apollo on the Moon (Dial, 1969),

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one of the questions that troubled NASA scientists was the
answer to the mystery of “how were the maria leveled so
neatly?” Artificial formation by alien intelligence would,
of course, help make understandable what Cooper refers
to as the “billiard-table standards of the maria.”.

METAL IN THE MOON’S MARIA?

What evidence led these two Soviet scientists to such a
dramatic conclusion—that the maria are in fact the evi¬
dence of the hollowing out and repairing of a huge space¬
ship world?

The evidence they offer is fragmentary, based almost
entirely on the fact that Moon rocks contained large
amounts of metallic elements—titanium, chromium, and
zirconium, highly refractory metals which are not only
heat-resistant but mechanically strong and have many ad¬
mirable anticorrosive properties. Say Shcherbakov and
Vasin; “A combination of them all would have enviable
resistance to heat and the ability to stand up to the means
of aggression, and could be used on Earth for linings for
electrical furnaces.”

In fact, the indisputable evidence that great amounts of
such metals were found in Moon rocks, though impressive,
is about the only evidence they offered for this bizarre,
radical thesis. Admittedly, such a finding is difficult to
“explain away,” but was any other evidence uncovered by
America’s Moon probes that would support this wild
theory?

What did we find when we went to the Moon? First of
all, the Moon rocks that we brought back for analysis were
rather puzzling. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker of the California
Institute of Technology, chief geological interpreter of the
Apollo results for NASA, confessed that the Moon samples
raised “ten times as many good questions as they are
likely to answer.”

Our first explorers brought back samples from the mys¬
terious Sea of Tranquility. The rocks from here astounded
the scientists who so eagerly and carefully examined them.
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“seas’* from which they were taken—had heavy concen¬
trations of tough, high-heat-resistant elements like titanium,
which indicated to scientists that the Moon’s outer layers
were melted by some source of heat that was very intense.

NASA scientists estimate that parts of the Moon’s outer
shell must have reached at least 4000°C. to melt and fuse
with rock the kinds of elements found there. The perplexing
problem is .this: How could the surface of the Moon have
reached such extremely high temperatures? Scientists frank¬
ly were at a loss to adequately answer this question.

Some of the Apollo samples proved to be ten times as
rich in titanium as the most titanium-rich rocks ever found
on our planet Earth. But not only titanium was found in
these lunar samples, but also zirconium, yttrium, beryllium,
and similar rare, anticorrosive, temperature-resistant metal¬
lic elements in perplexingly high percentages. These are
among the most durable elements known to man and have
admirable heat-resistant qualities, requiring extremely high
temperatures to melt. Yet lunar samples indicate that they
are present in shockingly great abundance in the lunar
outer crust. In fact, one scientific journal (Science News,
August 16, 1969) states that the outer surface of the Moon
seems to contain titanium, yttrium, and zirconium in
“amounts higher than present estimates either in earthly
rock or estimates of elemental abundance in the universe.”

Dr. Harold Urey confessed freely to his colleagues that
he “was terribly puzzled by the rocks from the moon, and
in particular by their titanium content.” To him this was
a “mind-blowing” discovery. He admitted candidly: “I just
don’t know how to account for the titanium.” (Henry
Cooper, Moon Rocks t Dial, 1970.)

But Urey was not alone. For not a single scientist could
solve the conundrum. To make matters worse, many scien¬
tists, like Urey, had concluded before the Moon expeditions
that our satellite was essentially a cold body, that it had
never been hot enough for any significant lava flows be¬
cause it just was not large enough to produce enough heat
to cause lava flows to any great extent. Now scientists had
to figure out how such a small world could have generated
temperatures as the data indicated it once had. It was most
embarrassing for Urey, because before Apollo he had in-

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sisted that he could prove mathematically that the Moon
was too small an orb to generate the kind of heat necessary
to produce si gnifi cant volcanic lava flows.

Another respected scientist, Dr. S. Ross Taylor, the
geochemist in charge of chemical analysis, pointed out:
“The problem is that on the Moon maria the size of Texas
had to be covered with melted rock containing fluid tita¬
nium and one wouldn’t expect titanium ever to be hot
enough or viscous enough to do that even on earth—and
no one had ever suggested that the Moon was hotter than
earth.” {Moon Rocks.)

What could have produced heat of such intensity? Scien¬
tists do not know how it could have been done naturally .
And here is the key. For all orthodox scientific consider¬
ations fall short of the mark in solving this problem. How¬
ever, if scientists accept the unorthodox “spaceship” view
of our two Soviet scientists that this intense heat was used
to artificially process great amounts of refractory metals to
flood the outer areas of the Moon, then the problem dis¬
appears.

But need we necessarily turn to artificial construction
by alien intelligence to solve the problem? No, for there is
another theory, common even before we went to the Moon,
which some scientists thought answered the difficulties.

WERE THE DARK LUNAR PLAINS PRODUCED
BY IMPACT MELTING?

Long before man journeyed to this mystery world, scien¬
tists had wondered how the Moon could have generated
the kind of heat necessary to pour forth oceans of lava
and cover one third of the surface area of this world. Now
the problem suddenly became much more complex, for
evidence indicated that tremendous amounts of heat-
resistant metallic elements existed in the maria. How then
could scientists account for this fantastic heat, which
seemingly eliminated natural volcanic action? Some claimed
that it could have been done by celestial bombardment of
gigantic meteors, asteroids, or even comets.

One leading scientist who came to this conviction was
Zdenak Kopal of the Department of Astronomy at the

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University of Manchester. This leading lunar light exam¬
ined the early Apollo evidence and in the prestigious pub¬
lication The Moon, A Physics and Astronomy of the Moon
(Academic Press, 2nd Ed., 1971 edition) insisted that the
great plains of the Moon could hardly have been lava flows
from the deep interior but were probably produced instead
by the tremendous energy generated by great cosmic col¬
lisions of meteors and the like, perhaps along with some
heat produced by radioactive elements concentrated in the
near surface areas.

Is this the solution to the seeming insoluble problems of
the Moon’s maria? As we have seen, the impact theory
has its weaknesses too. For one thing, it is hard to conceive
how one third of the Moon’s near side just happened to be
hit that hard by random celestial bombardment while the
far side, though presumably subject to the same bombard¬
ment, was hardly touched. As we have seen, the far side
has hardly any maria areas, while the near side is full of
them. Furthermore, if radioactivity were involved in the
heat-producing process, the far side with its much thicker
crust should contain much more of the radioactive elements
that helped to produce lunar lava flows. Yet it did not—
they are strangely absent there.

Also, evidence from the Moon’s maria itself indicates
that these huge circular seas of lava were formed from an
upwelling of volcanically produced material generated deep
inside the Moon.

Nevertheless, the impacting of celestial missiles as the
cause of maria did seem to be the only answer to this
problem.

However, in 1976 the great lunar expert Kopal published
his book The Moon in the Post Apollo Era (Reidel, 1974),
updating with the latest lunar evidence and findings what
happened to our Moon. Not surprisingly, Kopal completely
changed his mind, now discounting the possibility that the
Moon’s dark circular plains were caused by celestial im-
pactings. Kopal confesses, “it was clearly not the impact
heat which melted the magmas now covering the mare
floors; for the latter must have exuded from the interior at
a considerable later time.” The dating of Moon rocks and
other evidence had led him to this conclusion. He adds:
“A quest for the source of the basaltic magma we now see

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spread over the surface of the mare basins should, there¬
fore, lead us back again into the lunar interior.”

Kopal points out that immense difficulties “are encoun¬
tered, however, when we consider the mechanism, which
could have driven out such lavas to the surface. . . He
shows that the structure of rocks taken from these mare
areas indicate that they were differentiated geologically,
cooked under pressures that indicate that they came from
depths of not less than 150 kilometers. This is deeper by
far than “the depth of volcanic chambers” on our planet
Earth. Kopal freely admits the immense difficulties of get¬
ting lava from such great depths inside our Moon to the
surface, saying that “to pump molten material from such
depths up the surface calls for an expenditure of energy
whose source is not easily apparent.” ( The Moon in the
Post Apollo Era .)

So not only can’t scientists find out how the Moon could
have generated the kind of intense heat necessary to melt
high-temperature metals like titanium, amalgamating it with
rock, but they cannot figure out what force or energy could
have pumped such vast oceans of lava to the surface, spew¬
ing it forth in veritable seas across the outer portions of
the lunar planetoid.

STILL MORE PUZZLING PROBLEMS
WITH THE VOLCANIC SOLUTION

Scientists today continue to wonder where the energy for
such large circular seas of lava could have come from. Did
all strangely dark lava come from the natural volcanic
action of an internally hot Moon? Dr. Gerald Wasserburg
of the California Institute of Technology points out this
presents other serious problems in light of the established
fact that our Moon is a relatively cold body today. Before
scientists can accept this theory, as Wasserburg points out,
“we must attempt to understand what the precise mech¬
anism is by which the thermal energies of the Moon were
shut down to prevent further volcanism.” Wasserburg indi¬
cates that we have here another “impossible” situation.

One of the major theories as to how the Moon could
have accumulated enough heat to produce these huge seas

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of lava suggests the accumulation of radioactive elements
in the surface areas, generating enough heat to melt internal
sections of the Moon and pour forth these then-liquid lava
oceans to the surface. But as the journal Scientific American
points out, this too has serious problems, for the heat pro¬
duced by radioactive material found in abundance on the
Moon is slow and gradual. Evidence indicates that the
Moon melted rapidly so that the lava became “very fluid
and flowed over these areas quickly.” So leading Moon ex¬
perts hold that other methods must be thought of.

But what other solutions are there? Lunar experts them¬
selves have offered compelling reasons why impact melting
is out. Now apparently the only other solution, internal
volcanic action, cannot be the answer either. Which way
shall scientists turn? To the Soviet spaceship theory? Should
we point out that all problems, puzzles,. and conflicts dis¬
appear in light of the Soviet artificial-Moon theory?

ANOTHER KIND OF VOLCAN1SM!

*

In the midst of all these contradictions and conflictions
one NASA scientist suggested that maybe it was all so con¬
fusing because scientists were looking at “a special kind
of volcanism.”

Exactly! It is now clear that what took place on the
Moon is a volcanism artificially induced, using (as we shall
see) some kind of radioactive melting done in an artificially
created way, whereby, aliens might have mixed great
amounts of metallic elements from the Moon’s deep in¬
terior with molten rock. For this is no ordinary rock, as
assayed lunar samples have proven. It is full of metals.

No wonder—and this television watchers of these his¬
torical expeditions may well recall—our astronauts, trying
to drill through the maria, found to their frustration and
scientists’ amazement that they could hardly penetrate the
tough peculiar skin of this world. This despite the fact that
they had specially designed drills that could go through
just about anything. On several occasions the astronauts
using all their strength could hardly penetrate this tough
material, and for all their efforts merely got down a few

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inches! Here again is more evidence that this is not a nat¬
ural world. But this is just the beginning of such evidence.
For the mind-boggling constructions on the Moon were to
yield amazing evidence that these are just what they seem
to be: constructs!

PURE PROCESSED METALS ON THE MOON?

Admittedly, the artificial-Moon theory is the easy an¬
swer—almost the obvious answer—to the enigmas and
problems offered by the Moon. But is there any hard evi¬
dence to prove this far-out theory, other than the fact that
it dissolves the immense difficulties of this difficult-to-under-
stand world? Just because there seems to be no natural way
to explain how this complex companion of our Earth came
into being is not sufficient ground to label it a spaceship.
Surprisingly, such evidence has been unearthed (or should
we say “unmooned”?).

It has been definitely established, as we have seen, that
these strangely level, dark lunar plains are loaded with dark
minerals like titanium, a metallic element used on Earth in
the manufacture of supersonic aircraft and even spacecraft

This startling find, however, is only the beginning!

For scientists scrutinizing the precious treasure of 837
pounds of the Moon (and undoubtedly it is the most care¬
fully, meticulously, and thoroughly examined and analyzed
group of rocks man has ever looked at) have discovered,
much to their amazement, actual pure metal particles in
the lunar samples!

General Electric Research and Development Center
issued a scientific report declaring that pure iron particles
have been found in lunar samples. When this startling re¬
port first came out it caused many scientists to question the
validity of GE’s findings. For on the surface it would seem
to be scientifically impossible. Pure iron particles found in
nature? However, the findings have been since verified by
the University of California (Berkeley), proving beyond
a doubt the presence of pure iron particles in lunar sam¬
ples. (New York Times , January 7, 1970.)

Could they not, however, have come from meteorites?
No, insist the scientific experts. John Noble Wilford, sci-

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ence editor of the New York Times , points out: “The
moon’s iron particles apparently did not come from meteor¬
ites because the iron in meteorites occurs in an alloy with
nickel.” ( New York Times , January 7, 1970.)

Miraculously, Soviet remote-controlled, unmanned lunar
probes (Zond 16-20) which have brought back tiny sam¬
ples of the Moon also found pure iron particles. In August
1976 Soviet scientists brought back more treasures from
the Moon—a soil sample from the Sea of Crisis. It was at
this time that the Soviet government announced that their
scientists had discovered pure iron particles in their lunar
samples. They added something very important in their
report: These lunar iron particles contain iron that does
not rust!

The Associated Press wire carried this brief but startling
Soviet announcement:

“Emphasizing the importance of lunar soil samples, an
article in Pravda [official Soviet government news journal]
revealed that the first successful automatic mission in 1970
brought back particles of iron that ‘does not rust.’ ” Pure
iron that does not rust is unknown on Earth. In fact,
it cannot yet be even manufactured. Physicists and scien¬
tific experts claim they cannot understand how this is at
all possible without some kind of manufacturing process
being involved. They also point out that it is beyond our
present Earth technology. Pure iron that does not rust is
not found anywhere in a natural state. {Detroit Free Press,
August 24,1976.)

Unfortunately, the Pravda story passed over the stagger¬
ing implications in this discovery of pure iron that does
not rust. Pravda merely comments:

“If we understand how such iron is formed on the Moon
and we can learn to manufacture it under earth conditions,
this [discovery] would repay all the expenditures for space
study,” according to a Soviet scientist.

But this is not the end of the amazing story of metals
found on the Moon. Cambridge University scientists have
also found brass, mica, and amphibole in lunar material.
And beyond this, the near-pure titanium that was found
there stunned lunar experts.

Scientists now know that it is the extraordinarily high
amount of titanium which helps make the maria dark. The

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mineral in which titanium resides (illeminite) is black and
opaque, and it imparts a dark color to the lunar lava. This
black mineral is why these areas look so dark to man on
Earth.

Scientists have been doing lunar flip-flops trying to ex¬
plain the existence of pure titanium on the Moon. Science
News carried one of these strained attempts. (January 17,
1970.) The theory is that titanium darkens as it becomes
“closer to pure metals.” Scientists theorize that maybe the
solar wind is responsible for this wonder of wonders, per¬
haps by knocking atoms loose from their oxides, causing
minerals such as titanium “to darken as they become closer
to pure metals.”

This is one scientific speculation which tries to account
for the discovery of near-pure metals on the Moon—so
pure that they seem almost to have been manufactured by
some tremendously advanced technology. Even if we ac¬
cept this farfetched speculation—and the scientists who
devised it admit themselves that it is just that—it still does
not solve the other problems, such as how such intense
heat could have been generated on this relatively tiny cold
orb in our skies.

SCIENTISTS ON EARTH CANNOT EVEN
REPRODUCE LUNAR MATERIALS!

The entire package of lunar samples from the maria—
which were apparently cooked in extremely high temper¬
atures—has left scientists almost totally perplexed. They
have studied these lunar samples minutely and as yet they
are completely stumped to explain them.

Dr. Robert Jastrow points this out in his article “The
Moon is a Rosetta Stone.” ( New York Times Magazine ,
November 1969.) Here is another lunar impasse: “No
pattern emerges from the discrepancies. The geochemists
cannot see any way in which the materials of the Earth,
even if worked over repeatedly by long-continued sequences
of melting and remelting and recrystallization, could be
made to yield the detailed composition of the Apollo 11
rocks.” Like the pure iron which does not rust, they al-

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most seemed to have been manufactured—produced by a
technology far beyond our own.

THE METALLIC-LOOKING MARIA

Many areas of the Moon seem to be covered with metals,
as astronaut James Irwin observed (see quote heading this
chapter). In an ancient issue of the Scientific American
(February 1927), following up an article on the peculiar-
looking surface of the Moon, especially around the maria,
one reader wrote a letter to the editor noting the similarity
between these Moon surfaces and the surface of pure pro¬
cessed iron. He was an iron expert and he noted: “On
examining scrap pile in an iron foundry, it is not uncom¬
mon to come across some pieces of iron exhibiting some
of the structures seen on the Moon.” An interesting ob¬
servation, and it is striking that astronaut James Irwin of
Apollo 15 described these same strangely dark areas in
similar metallic terms.

Scientists took note of the great amount of metals on the
lunar surface too. In an article appearing in Science News
(January 1, 1972) entitled “Migrating Metals On the
Moon . . it is stated: “The movement of volatilized
metals over the surface of the moon could be confusing in¬
terpretation of the ages of lunar samples.”

Surface metals could be responsible for yet another
strange lunar phenomenon. In fact, the Moon has been
tipping man off for centuries, yet very few scientists have
discerned this. As we have noted in Chapter 2, strange
lights have been seen on the Moon over the past several cen¬
turies. As we indicated earlier, certainly not all of these
could be in any way interpreted to be UFOs. Before man
went to the Moon, the speculation of some scientists trying
to explain these peculiar glows was that they might be
generated on the Moon’s surface in some natural way. A
few thought they might be caused by the peculiar surface
of the lunar crust, which perhaps might possibly be loaded
with metals.

There was no question that some of these glows and
lights were immense. In fact, science writer William Cor-

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liss, formerly with NASA says: “The Moon . . . unques¬
tionably luminesces over its entire sunlit face and reddish
glows over areas as large as 50,000 square miles have been
reported. These displays are most easily attributed to solar-
induced luminescence. The highly localized, ruby red spots
seen by Herschel, Kozyrev, Greenacre and many others
may be either luminescence, volcanism, or some phenomen¬
on we do not yet recognize. Only time and the landing of
astronaut-geologists will tell.” ( Mysteries of the Universe .)

These glows have been verified by our astronauts. For
instance, Apollo 11 astronauts did see strange glows in the
crater Aristarchus, one of the areas where astronomers over
the many decades have reported seeing strange luminescing
on the Moon. Some described these glows as “a peculiar
fluorescence on its wall.”

Interestingly, this “luminous glow” seen by the astronauts
was verified by several astronomic observers on Earth. The
Institute for Space Research in Bochum, Germany, ob¬
served the very same glow that our Apollo 11 astronauts
reported. And accounts of similar observations of the very
same glows were made in Brazil, Ireland, and other far-
flung areas of our planet.

Dr. H. P. Wilkins ventured this explanation for these
strange glows:

“The only rational explanation would seem to be that in
certain regions, the moon’s surface consists of materials
which emits electrons under the influence of light or elec¬
tronic impact, or considerable deposits of metals , for ex¬
ample, iron , which act as deflectors of free electrons . The
fluorescent effects may be due to electronic bombardment.”
{Our Moon . Emphasis added.)

Here is evidence of large amounts of metal existing in
these very areas of the Moon where we later discovered
them. What the great Wilkins suspected has been verified.
The only question that remains is, how did it get there—
not just the iron which has been found in pure form, but
the other rare refractory metals that require such intense
heat to melt, such as titanium.

ARE ALL THE MARIA METAL-RICH?

Soviet scientists claim that from their investigation, done
mostly through remote-controlled retrieved samples, they
conclude that the composition of the maria is essentially
the same, although some undoubtedly have different pro¬
portions of titanium and other metallic elements.

Our own research tends to verify this conclusion. NASA
document Apollo 17: Preliminary Science Report states
clearly: “All mare basalts have been found to be unusually
rich in iron and sometimes rich in titanium.”

We got an inkling of this in other ways besides direct
analysis of lunar material. For instance, when the Apollo
13 rocket stage (Saturn 5’s third stage) crashed into the
Moon (it hit with a speed of 9300 mph), the Moon rever¬
berated, sending shock waves racing across the sphere at
great speeds over vast distances. The Moon reverberated
like a huge bell for over 3 hours 20 minutes.

These prolonged vibrations reinforced the view that the
lunar maria are “filled with material that respon3s very
differently to shock waves than does the material forming
the Earth.” ( New York Times, April 16, 1970.) What kind
of material could cause this?

We do know that material which contains heavy amounts
of metal would convey tremors in such a manner. But
couldn’t this be a natural characteristic of lunar material?
Perhaps the material out of which the Moon is made just
naturally reacts this way.

On the contrary—studies show that it is just the opposite.
For another complicating fact is that some lunar rocks
react in just the opposite fashion. According to the highly
respected publication Science (June 26, 1970), a study
shows that the velocity of sound waves through many lunar
rocks is “perplexingly low.” It is, in fact, approximately
just one third that of Earth rocks.

Edward Schreiber of Queens College and Orson L.
Anderson of the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
sought out various Earth materials with a sound velocity
comparable to the lunar rocks, and found that a variety
of Swiss, Norwegian, Italian, and Wisconsin cheeses fit
the bill.

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Facetiously they point out that while the lunar rocks are
about the density of cheese, this may readily be accounted
for when one considers “how better aged the lunar ma¬
terials are.”

Their findings, they added, suggest that perhaps “old
hypotheses are best after all, [and] should not be lightly
discarded.”

May we add, neither should any unorthodox theories—
and in light of the facts, especially the unorthodox Soviet
theory that the Moon may be a huge hollow spaceship!

THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE?

There is something else discovered about these strange
dark regions of the outer Moon that indicates that the hand
of alien intelligence was at work here. As we have already
noted, evidence indicates that the maria are covered with
material that is denser than the rest of the Moon. Walter
Sullivan, former science editor of the New York Times ,
points out: “Furthermore, the Sea of Tranquility is covered
with materia] that is considerably more dense than the
average density of the Moon, deduced from its gravity.
This is the reverse of what one would expect. On earth the
lava that flows upwards and out onto the surface is the
lighter component—not the heavier fraction.” (New York
Times , November 9, 1969.)

How do scientists explain how heavier materials can flow
to the top of the surface of the Moon’s maria? They
cannot

In fact, to be utterly frank about it, not only is this the
reversal of what scientists expected, it just is not natural—
not according to the way the laws of nature work. Heavier
elements sink , not rise to the surface. The only way it can
be explained is as the Soviets claim—that the maria, the
dark areas of the Moon, were in some way artificially
produced.

Even a little point like this, especially taking into con¬
sideration all the other evidence, leads the researcher to
believe there was the hand of alien intelligence at work in
the formation of the maria, even as our Soviet spaceship
theorists insist.

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THE GREAT OUTER SHELL OF
THIS SPACESHIP MOON

The Soviet scientists Vasin and Shcherbakov stated that
they were convinced that the entire outer portions of the
Moon and not just the maria formed the protective outer
shell of the inner spaceship world. Is there any evidence
to support this?

Definitely. For now scientists know that for some strange
reason the Moon has an unexplainably thick outer shell
which apparently has been baked by some unknown intense
heat.

This was first divined when a miracle happened. Dr. Gary
Latham, who wanted to know more about the structure
of our Moon’s interior and the thickness of the Moon’s
crust, actually proposed exploding a nuclear device on the
far side of the Moon to send strong shock waves all through
the lunar interior. However, because of staunch opposition
by other scientists and many scientific publications, he with¬
drew his suggestion. As it turned out, he didn’t need a
nuclear bomb, for a miraculous event took place. The
Moon was unexpectedly hit by a gigantic meteor.

Lunar scientists with their sensitive seismometers on the
Moon were awaiting such an event, hoping against hope
for this unlikely hit to occur. But most scientists were
realistically pessimistic, for they calculated that a meteor
of such great size bangs into the Moon only about once in
a million years or so. But then, on May 13, 1972, a
“whopper” slammed into Luna with an impact of about
200 tons of TNT.

“It was a miracle of the first magnitude,” exclaimed Dr.
Latham, NASA’s chief seismologist. (Science News, July
1, 1972.)

This miracle enabled lunar experts like Latham to deter¬
mine the thickness of the Moon’s outer crust. The data
indicated it is about 60 kilometers (over 30 miles) thick.
This shocked them. “This is twice as thick as the average
crustal outer shell of any continent on Earth,” notes
Latham.

How did the Moon acquire such a thick, extremely tough
exterior? It was somehow baked on. This in spite of the fact
that our much smaller Moon (only about one fourth the

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size of our own planet) supposedly never could have
heated up to any great extent- This is in itself a perplexing
puzzle.

How then do scientists explain, even assuming the Moon
could attain such high baking temperatures, such a great
difference in crustal thickness compared to Earth? Again
they are at a loss to say. It is just another in the long litany
of lunar enigmas.

More importantly, how do scientists explain the estab¬
lished fact that the crust of the Moon is made of material
which has been melted and poured onto the surface?
Or one could put it differently: “How does one get a 65-
kilometer-thick crust that is 50 to 85 percent plagioclase
without melting most of the Moon? And if melting oc¬
curred how could the Moon’s interior be relatively cool
today?”

Conundrums that cannot be cracked. But we have seen
the Soviet artificial-created-Moon theory has the answer to
this and all the other lunar mysteries.

The melted and “baked” outer shell of the Moon puzzles
orthodox scientists today. Asks one NASA scientist: “ What
force could have brought about significant distribution of
crustal material?”

Some claim this thorough job was done by celestial bom¬
bardment, simply because their data indicate that the Moon
could never have been hot enough to have extensive vol¬
canic action. {The Moon, An International Journal of
Lunar Studies , 1973, Vol. 8.)

However, they add: “None of the suggested artificial
sources [bombardment] for the observed criterions (sic)
appears to be capable of producing what was observed. . . .
The only possibility would be a natural source indigenous
to the Moon. . .

If the Moon could not generate enough heat to have
done it from below and it didn’t come in the form of
celestial bombardment of meteors and asteroids from above,
where and what force accomplished this? Could it not be
a truly artificial alien force, as all the other evidence in¬
dicates?

Another news journal tells us that “there are indications
that some force or forces once ‘rearranged’ materials on
the Moon.” They point to one puzzling piece of informa-

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tionr a rock taken from the Sea of Tranquility by our astro¬
nauts which scientists are convinced actually came from
a highland area a vast distance away!

We have seen in this chapter much tantalizing and sub¬
stantial evidence that indeed the Moon was the object of
a massive reconversion job—that its outer surface gives
clear evidence of its having been transformed from a nat¬
ural asteroid or planetoid into a huge hollowed-out, rein¬
forced spacecraft!

EXTERNALLY THE MOON APPEARS TO BE
THE CREATION OF ALIEN INTELLIGENCE /

We can easily understand how all the mysteries of the
maria melt away in light of the Soviet spaceship theory.
Now the existence of pure titanium and other highly re¬
fractory elements found in such staggeringly great amounts
in these lunar seas becomes understandable. Even the exis¬
tence of pure, rustproof iron on the Moon makes sense in
light of the advanced alien technology that could undoubt¬
edly manufacture it—a process yet unknown on Earth even
with our advanced technology.

Now we know how the Moon could have been heated to
4000°F.; why the Moon’s maria all seem so strangely
circular and appear not to be randomly distributed across
the Moon’s tortured face, but all on one side and, even
more puzzlingly, almost all in one quadrant. This appar¬
ently was not just happenstance but planned by unknown
alien intelligence.

These clearly are not naturally formed “seas.” Whatever
tremendous melting process refashioned the Moon world?
Vasin and Shcherbakov claim it was the direct result of
artificial construction by unknown alien beings. The evi¬
dence makes it appear that the Soviet scientists are shock¬
ingly correct in their speculations. Moreover, the multiply¬
ing mysteries and enigmas uncovered seem to disappear in
light of this strange theory.

For instance, now the mystery of the great multitude of
craters on the Moon and their puzzling shallowness becomes
clear. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, leading NASA scientist, at
the outset of this lunar detective race said: “If one looked

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long enough and hard enough at the craters of the Moon,
one became aware that ‘the moon is trying to tell us some¬
thing/ ”

Although Shoemaker, of course, was not referring to the
spaceship theory, it is clear that there are plenty of clues
and a mountain of evidence to tip us off about Spaceship
Moon. Now suddenly the astounding shallowness of lunar
craters becomes understandable if we accept the Spaceship
Moon theory—the extremely hard and tough outer shell
stops all incoming blasts from celestial missiles within two
or three miles of the surface.

Of course, there are other answers to this particular
mystery. Undoubtedly, other planets like Mars and Mer¬
cury have broad shallow craters, which obviously does not
necessarily make them spaceships either.

There are other answers to the problems of why the
Moon is such a bombarded piece of rock hammered with
holes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, in fact the
millions, while right nearby our planet Earth escaped rela¬
tively unscathed.

Astronomers had been baffled by this particular problem
until someone finally hit on a possible solution—an answer
that could solve this conundrum. Admittedly, it could have
happened at a time early in its cosmic career, when Earth
was still hot enough to absorb the blasts, thus leaving no
telltale scars, while the smaller Moon, which had already
formed a hard outer shell, had holes ripped into it all over
its tortured face. So even though our Earth, which was
much larger and should have gotten more than its share of
celestial hits, does not show that many, it is simply because
the molten surface of our hot Earth at the time caused
them to be effaced.

These are other solutions to these seemingly insolvable
lunar mysteries that are within the realm of orthodox sci¬
ence and which do not require the radical spaceship theory
to resolve. However, it is intriguing and impressive that all
the many mysteries uncovered since scientists have put the
Moon under an intense study, dissolve in light of the
spaceship solution.

There is also evidence, as we have seen, that the Moon
has on its surface telltale signs of artificial construction.
Interestingly, the Soviet scientists are not the only ones to

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detect it. In George Leonard’s fascinating book Somebody
Else is on the Moon he cites various scientists outside the
Soviet Union who are convinced that the Moon may be a
spaceship, among them a British physicist from Oxford and
a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Cal
Tech) in California.

Furthermore, Leonard claims: “At least one qualified
person has argued that the skin of the Moon may actually
be an artificial protective cover—a cover which has been
exposed in some places due to a horrendous debacle which
took place a long time ago ” (Emphasis added.)

Exactly what our Soviet theorists say.

Later in that work Leonard makes this shocking obser¬
vation, which tends to back up this thesis: “It [the Moon]
seems to have a built structure to it—a matrix, a gridwork,
a weave.”

He cites the fact that an astronaut dropped a piece of
equipment (the LEM) on its surface and the Moon vi¬
brated for an hour! “The shock waves were recorded by
seismographs some distance away.”

Amazing! Absolutely inexplicable—except, of course, in
light of the Spaceship Moon theory. No one has yet offered
an explanation, except the spaceship answer.

Leonard further states: “If you hit bedrock in Peking
with a hydraulic hammer, I doubt it would be felt in Pitts¬
burgh; but the same blow on the far side of the Moon
would certainly be detected on the near side.”

We shall see this fact reinforced when we look at the
next chapter, which proves the Moon has an inner shell of
metallic rock. This is our next target on the Moon.

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There is nothing so far removed from us as to be be¬
yond our reach , or so hidden that we cannot detect it,

—Rene Descartes (1596-1650), quoted by

astronaut John Young

TEN _

DOES THE MOON HAVE AN INNER SHELL
OR “HULL” OF METAL?

• Why does the Moon when close to the Earth cause a
slight deviation in the magnetic needle of a compass?

• Why is there a huge bulge on the far side of our lopsided
Moon, a bulge which indicates the Moon is supported on the
interior to give it great internal strength?

• Why do strange circular disks centered like bull’s-eyes
exist in the middle of the mysterious circular maria and
how does this indicate that the Moon’s interior shell is “as
rigid and as strong as steel”?

• NASA documents admit that there is something that
exists inside the Moon that differs greatly from the rest of
the interior, that is denser than rock—what they describe
as “a hard layer of something deep within the Moon.”
What is that strange layer?

• Why does this hard layer completely enshroud the
Moon?

• Why do lunar impacts cause the Moon to ring like a
huge metal sphere?

• Tremors are conveyed through the Moon through its
outer layers at an unbelievable rate of 6 miles per second—
thirteen times faster than a rifle bullet. This is the speed
of sound through metal. Does a layer of metal or metallic
rock enshroud the Moon?

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• The Moon suffers from “swarms” of tremors at times—
what one scientist calls the “shakes.” Why does this malce
sense only in light of Spaceship Moon’s inner shell of
metal?

In their mind-boggling Sputnik article “Is the Moon the
Creation of Alien Intelligence?” the two Soviet scientists
Vasin and Shcherbakov hold that the Moon is a refashioned
planetoid hollowed out and reconverted into a spaceship.
This cosmic Noah’s Ark, they are convinced, was rein¬
forced on the interior with a huge, thick shield of what
they call “space armour,” which they calculate is about 20
miles thick.

They explain: “From our point of view, the Moon is a
thin-walled sphere. Probably the sphere’s shell is made up
of two layers—a loosely packed outer layer to absorb the
shocks of meteorite impacts, with an inner layer of 20-
miles thick armour-plate.”

Why such a fantastically huge shell of metal or metallic
rock? They explain: “Naturally $ the hull of such a space¬
ship must be super-tough in order to stand up to the blows
of meteorites and sharp fluctuations between extreme heat
and extreme cold. Probably the shell is a double-layered
affair—the basis a dense armouring of about 20 miles in
thickness, and outside it some kind of more loosely packed
covering [a thinner layer—averaging about three miles]. In
certain areas—where the lunar ‘seas’ and ‘craters’ are—the
upper layer is quite thin, in some cases non-existent.”

So conclude our two Soviet spaceship theorists.

HARD EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT
THE HARD INNER SHELL

It seems incredible that two orthodox scientists from a
highly respected science institute—one of the world’s
most esteemed—should postulate such a strange Moon, one
that according to their model has a 20-mile-thick hull! On
the surface it would seem utterly preposterous.

Are there any hard-core scientific data and evidence to
support this bold supposition? Surprisingly, yes.

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DOES THE MOON MOVE SENSITIVE
MAGNETIC NEEDLES?

Actually, our Moon gave man a number of hints that
it might have just such a huge inner metal shell even be¬
fore we went there.

With the interior hull purportedly being metallic and all
this exterior loaded to such a great extent with metal, the
question might be asked, wouldn’t a metal detector on the
Moon go wild?

Intriguingly, in 1861 the American Journal of Science
(81:98-103 and 84:381-87) did note more than a century
ago that the Moon seemed to have an influence on sensitive
magnetic needles, causing them to deviate slightly. Their
conclusion from the data and evidence then available was
startling: “The reported effects are small but definitely
beyond probable error (Emphasis added.)

THE MOON'S PECULIAR INTERNAL STRENGTH

There were other clues the Moon offered that some
scientists did not miss. For the odd shape of the Moon itself
indicated to some sharp scientists on Earth that something
extremely strong did exist in her interior. Even before our
space probes began to rip the veil of mystery from the
Moon’s face, scientists on Earth surmised that our com¬
panion world was out of whack, and in fact possessed a
huge bulge. However, scientists were mystified because
their information indicated that peculiar bulge was seven¬
teen times greater than could be accounted for by the tidal
pull of the planet Earth. What could have caused such a
lopsided Moon?

What was even more mystifying—and this scientists
could not figure out— how could the Moon manage to sup¬
port such a huge bulge? As the great lunar expert Dr.
Harold Urey pointed out: ‘This bulge is a non-equilibrium
one and must be supported by some curious internal char¬
acteristic of the Moon , such as great strength of the in¬
terior or some variation in the density of the body of the
Moon.” (America's Race for the Moon. Emphasis added.)

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Exactly what the Spaceship Moon possesses, say our two
spaceship scientists.

Then our Moon probes began and scientists got their
biggest surprise. For they learned that the Moon had a
bulge all right, but not exactly where scientists of Earth
supposed it would be. It was, perplexingly, on the far side—
a side that to our knowledge has never faced Earth. Clearly,
as one scientist put it: "It appears that, not the earth , but
something else has the attention of the moon ” (Science
News, January 29, 1972. Emphasis added.)

Although lunar experts had to revise their thinking about
the Moon’s lopsidedness, they knew that it still indicated
considerable internal strength on the inside of the Moon.
The outstanding Moon scientist Zdenak Kopal noted in
1971 that there “must be considerable strength in the deep
interior of the Moon now, and that this has been true since
the Moon acquired its irregular shape.”

Kopal also stressed that it is surprising that a large ob¬
ject such as the Moon, stressed by tides and unequal heat
changes, was not able to adjust its shape the few-kilometer
bulge and thus relieve or smooth out this stress. That it has
not done so, says Kopal, “surely indicates considerable
strength in the deep interior.”

One of the big questions that is perplexing lunar re¬
searchers today is, what peculiar internal strength lies
within the body of the Moon itself to support this great
bulge? Although this problem has dumbfounded scientists
who today study the Moon, we now know the solution to
this peculiarity of our planetary neighbor.

We now know that the “mysterious” internal character¬
istic that gives the Moon its great internal strength is the
metallic inner shell. At least, so insist our Soviet spaceship
theorists. Admittedly this mystifying puzzle would no longer
perplex science in light of the Soviet theory that the Moon
has in its interior a metallic inner shell or hull.

Other clues from our exploration of the Moon seem to
verify that this strange world circling us has an interior as
rigid and as strong as steel. When the tracing data of lunar
orbiters discovered that great massive concentrations (mas-
cons) did exist just under the surface of the circular maria,
scientists were forced to conclude, as Richard Lewis puts

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it so well in his provocative The Voyages of Apollo, that
“lunar rock structure is as strong as steel/* (Emphasis
added.) Indications again of that artificial construction of
a metal hull inside Spaceship Moon?

So not only does the nonspherical shape of the Moon
indicate great internal strength but, as this veteran science
reporter puts it, the mascons alsp point clearly to the fact
that the crustal structure of the maria indicate the lunar
interior is “as rigid as steel.”

ANOTHER CLUE: THE MOON RINGS
LIKE A HUGE METAL SPHERE!

If such were the case—if this strange world actually had
a metallic-type spaceship hull—it could have been predicted
even before man went to the Moon that when our Apollo
spacecraft were sent crashing into the crust the Moon would
produce vibrations and tremors utterly different from any
man had ever known. If the hull were really metallic all
the way around, these vibrations would be of extremely
long duration and the crashes should make this huge metal¬
lic hull vibrate like a huge bell or gong. Remarkably, they
did!

What kind of material would convey shock waves such
great distances? A metal sphere, of course, would. What¬
ever kind of material lies inside the Moon, there is no
question that it transmits signals “very, very effectively,”
says Dr. Gary Latham, chief seismologist for NASA. In
fact, “so effectively that we are seeing impacts from all
over the "Moon,” Latham claims. ( Science News, June 12,
1971.)

And these impacts are being recorded from all over the
Moon, even though there are only four seismic stations
placed at widely separated locations on the near side.
Surely this indicates that this material completely enshrouds
the entire lunar interior—whatever it is. And what material

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would transmit vibrations so effectively? A metallic hollow
sphere could and would!

No wonder the Moon rang like a huge bell upon man¬
made impacts. Reconsider the data and evidence:

Apollo 12: Moon rings for nearly an hour.

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Apollo 13 (third stage of rocket hit): Moon vibrates for
over three hours!

Apollo 14 (lunar module hit): Moon reverberates for
over 3 hours!

And on and on—until the Moon actually reverberated
upon impact for more than 4 hours! *

HOW DEEP THE METAL SHELL?

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The Soviet spaceship speculators concluded from their
evidence that this metallic hull lay on the average about
20 miles under the Moon’s hide of rock and dirt.

Consider how American evidence bears this out. When
the immense Saturn rocket of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mis¬
sion was propelled out of Earth orbit and sent crashing into
the Moon, it produced a tremendous seismic response.
The tremors traveled interiorly to a depth of 22-25 miles,
according to a NASA document. ( Apollo 14: Science at
Fra Mauro.)

Scientists at NASA were naturally perplexed, but such
results again are exactly what should be expected if the
Soviet spaceship theory of the Moon is correct. And how
correct they seem to be!—even to the amazing scientific
“guess” about its inner depth.

All the other Apollo spacecraft crashes into the crust
of the Moon produced similar measurable tremors through
its outer covering of rock and dirt, yielding this unbeliev¬
able secret of its hidden interior. The impact, for instance,
of the lunar lander Falcon of the Apollo 15 mission indi¬
cates, as notes the NASA report Apollo 15, that there is a
“hard layer of something deep within the Moon.” This
would seem to be that inner shell of the hull of our Space¬
ship Moon which the Soviet scientists speculate exists
there.

Scientists admit that the puzzling hours-long vibrations
indicate that whatever this extremely hard layer is, it trans¬
mits sounds extremely well, A metallic sphere transmits

* “Signals from the larger man-made impacts continued for over 4
hours,” Science magazine asserts. All signals show gradual increase
and decrease in intensity. (See Science , November 12, 1971.)

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sounds extremely well. However, NASA scientists tell us
that they think it is just extremely hard rock. But our Earth
has a mantle of extremely hard rock under tremendous
pressure, and it does not ring or vibrate anything the way
the Moon does, although admittedly the Moon apparently
does not have a soft, hot interior like Earth’s to dampen
the length of these reverberations.

Nevertheless, not only do luriar impacts produce tre¬
mendously long reverberations but the tremors travel great
distances. The signals of the Apollo 15 impact traveled
over 700 miles to the Apollo 12 seismometer on the Sea of
Storms and to the Apollo seismometer at the Fra Mauro
highlands!

We have seen that after Apollo 12 astronauts Conrad
and Bean blasted off from the Moon in their lunar module
and docked with the command ship, the Apollo 12 ascent
stage of that module was sent smashing into the Moon’s
surface. Its impact set off reverberating seismic waves in
the lunar interior unlike any ever recorded on our planet.
Lunar scientists reported that the seismic waves lasted over
55 minutes, the signals building to a peak in about 7 min¬
utes and then peculiarly tapering off ever so slowly, finally
dying out about an hour later. Scientists not only admit
that this phenomenon indicates that the Moon’s interior is
an exceptionally effective conductor of vibrations but also
confess that they are perplexed by the long delay between
the time the signals began and the time they reached full
strength, finally decaying to silence unbelievably great
lengths of time later—in most instances several hours. The
unusual length of these reverberations absolutely bewilders
the best lunar seismic experts.

A METALLIC SHELL COMPLETELY
ENSHROUDS THE MOON

Again the Moon is behaving like a hollow metal sphere.
And there is evidence that the strange material that lies
inside the Moon—that “hard layer of something deep
within the Moon” that NASA admits is there—appears to
form a complete shell that enshrouds the Moon. For the
shock waves of impacts transmitted seismic responses all

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the way around the Moon! Similarly, as shocking as this
appears to scientists, impacts actually have been received
from the far side, conveyed to seismometers on the near
side.

This, of course, again raises this critical question: What
kind of material lies inside the Moon, enshrouding its in¬
terior, which conducts sound so efficiently and effectively
that tremors are conveyed completely around the Moon?
Again, that metallic layer which the Soviet scientists theo¬
rize lies inside the Moon!

THE SPEED OF SOUND THROUGH METAL

Furthermore, the vibrations indicate that the Moon has
this strangely different material in an inner layer. As NASA
scientific report Apollo 16: On the Moon with Apollo 16
(1972) says, “A very recent study of the results of previous
spacecraft impacts has revealed the existence of a lunar
crust that may be roughly 40 miles thick. It is now be¬
lieved by some of us that the .Moon may be shrouded with
material that differs greatly from the material in the in¬
terior of the Moon ” (Emphasis added.)

We have seen that the tremendous- distances that the
tremors are conveyed through and around the Moon indi¬
cate that it is metal. The strange prolonged tremors that
perplex scientists by their duration indicate that this is a
shroud of metal. But there is something even more in¬
triguing and telling that science has learned about the inside
of our Moon that is the crucial, final piece of evidence that
proves it is metal. This comes from the mystifying speed
with which these tremors travel through that hard inner
layer that transmits vibrations so well.

As Wernher Von Braun, leading space expert, pointed
out: “The velocity [of seismic waves] seems to gradually
increase down to a depth of about 15 miles—then there is
a sharp increase. This abrupt increase can only be ac¬
counted for by a change to a denser material . At a depth
of 40 miles , the velocity is estimated to be about six miles
per second . . . No rocks examined thus far would under
the actual pressures expected at a lunar depth of only 40
miles transmit seismic impulses at speeds as high as six

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miles per second” (Popular Science, January 1972. Empha¬
sis added.)

It is important to note that vibrations do travel much
faster through metal, and of course through metallic rock,
than through just plain rock! This data would indicate that
the Moon has a layer of metal or metallic rock inside it.
For we know the speed of sound through different materials.
Any good physics manual can tell you this. What material
would convey sounds at six miles per second—that is,
thirteen times faster than a rifle bullet? Curiously, this is
the same incredible speed at which the Apollo Moon-bound
rockets blasted off from the Earth, bearing men to this
strange, alien world. ( NASA's Apollo Expeditions to the
Moon f 1975.)

We learned on our trips to the Moon that the filled-in
dark regions of the Moon are rich in metals rare on Earth
—titanium, molybdenum, beryllium and the like. A check
of the speed of sound through these metals so common in
the outer shell of the Moon convinces us that the inner
shell is composed of the same metals!

THE SPEED OF SOUND TRAVELING
THROUGH LUNAR METALS*

Iron .

5,960

meters /

sec.

or about

18,000 1

Eeet / j

sec.

Nickel .

6,040

/

99

99

99

19,000

/

99

»

Titanium .

6,070

99

»

»

20,000

99

99

Molybdenum ..

6,250

99

»

99

21,000

99

99

Beryllium ....

12,890

99

99

99

42,000

99

n

A quick glance here reveals that an intermixture of these
metals that probably exist in that inner layer would pro¬
duce an alloy of metal that tremors would travel through at
about 6 miles per second—in other words, about 30,GOO-
35,000 feet per second!

We must also remember that the above chart gives the
speeds of sound through ordinary metal on Earth . Of
course, sound waves would travel even faster at a lunar
depth of 20-40 miles.

* From Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (54th Edition), published
by the Chemical Rubber Company (1973-74).

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Surely this seems to be the clinching argument—the final
proof that the interior of the Moon has a metallic or
metallic-rock layer, that layer of our Spaceship Moon
which our two Soviet spaceship scientists claim exists!

A NASA MOON MODEL IS A HOLLOW
SPHERE—A SPACESHIP!

Scientists at NASA have produced various models of the
Moon based on the data and information received. One such
model is particularly intriguing: “Based on information
scientists produced lunar models ,that would fit the strange
phenomenon! Some such models would have made for a
rather bizarre Moon, such as a hollow titanium ball, . . •”
{Science News, November 29, 1974.)

Amazing! This is exactly what the Soviet artificial-Moon
theorists claim. In commenting on this “bizarre” model
Captain Lee Scherer, director of the Apollo Lunar Ex¬
ploration Office, says such a model is “highly unlikely.”
But as we have seen, this model might be more correct
than our NASA officials are willing to admit. Certainly
more astounding than any scientist or human being could
possibly imagine!

Yet it fits—perfectly. A huge rock-covered metal sphere?
No wonder our Moon rings like a huge belli

SCIENTISTS THEMSELVES SPECULATE THAT
LUNAR METALLIC SHELL EXISTS!

Another puzzle that has scientists perplexed is why the
outer portions of the Moon seem to be devoid of iron in
general, while Earth is so rich in that mineral. Not that
the Moon does not contain iron. Actually, as we have
seen, those vast lunar plains are rich in iron as well as
other metallic elements. One scientific report concludes:
“From the returns of Apollo 11 and 12, geologists knew
that the maria were rich in iron—one thing that makes
them appear darker than surrounding areas.”

But apparently there is more iron inside the Moon than
scientists first thought. For now scientists are seriously

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speculating that a thick metallic layer lies just under the
crustal surface of rock and dirt.

Remarkably, the speculation fit all the facts, for we
know:

• This is the area just underneath the surface which scien¬
tists have learned is rich in metallic elements like iron. It
is the area or band which, when the Moon is hit with heavy
impact, sends shock waves racing all the way around the
Moon. This sounds remarkably like the metallic hull of
the Soviet spaceship!

• Interestingly, this layer of metal makes understandable
our space agency’s own conclusion that “the material that
the moon may be shrouded with . . . differs from the ma¬
terial of the rest of the Moon.” In other words^ differs from
the rock crust.

• This different material that enshrouds the Moon really
sounds like the spaceship hull that our two Soviet scientists
speculate exists just under the Moon’s outer crust of rock
and dirt—a material that not only transmits sounds ex¬
tremely well, but which definitely gives the Moon con¬
siderable internal strength. And we do know that something
exists inside the Moon that gives it considerable internal
strength to allow for the existence of the nonequilibrium
figure of the Moon—the lopsided bulge of that orb. This
spaceship hull or shell could be that “something.”

• The speed at which tremors travel through this internal
layer is the speed at which sounds travels through metals.
In conclusion, every indication exists that here seems to
lie the metallic hull of our Spaceship Moon.

TECHNICAL DATA SUPPORT
THE METAL-HULL THEORY

Furthermore, various other lunar studies reveal that just
such a layer of metal does exist beneath the outer rock crust
of our lunar world. In a technical study reported by the
NASA-sponsored Fourth Lunar Conference (Proceedings

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of the Fourth Lunar Conference , Pergamon Press, 1973,
VoL 3) Dr. Curtis Parkin, Department of Physics, Uni¬
versity of Santa Clara, and Palmer Dyal and William
Daily of NASA’s Ames Research Center, using Apollo 12
and Apollo 15 lunar-surface magnetometer data with
simultaneous lunar orbiting Explorer 35 data, plotted
hysteresis curves for the entire Moon. In their technical
paper, “Iron Abundance in the Moon from Magnetometer
Measurements,” these lunar experts declare:

“This result implies that the moon is not composed en¬
tirely of paramagnetic material [rock] but that ferromag¬
netic material such as free iron exists in sufficient amounts
to dominate the bulk lunar susceptibility.”

The study’s conclusion is staggering in its implications:

“We have found no reasonable paramagnetic mineral or

combination of minerals with the correct lunar density that

would have permeability high enough to be consistent with

our measured values. From this we infer that the moon

*

must contain some material in the ferromagnetic state, such
as free metallic iron , in order to account for th.j measured
global permeability.” (Emphasis added.)

Other studies from different data have come to a similar
conclusion: that metallic material exists in a large amount
in a layer just under the outer rock surface of our Moon.
The highly regarded lunar journal The Moon , an Inter¬
national Journal of Lunar Studies points to three such
studies: Sonnett’s (1971), Urey’s (1971), and Murphy’s
(1971). They all point to a metallic layer inside the Moon.
Sonnett postulated a three-layered structure for the Moon
similar to the Soviets’, a special feature of which was “a
thin conductivity layer . ♦ . which has been suggested to be
Fe [iron] metal” or a similar alloy.

THE OUTER MOON IS A STRANGE
HUGE RUBBLE PILE

Another perplexing mystery of the Moon is the fact that
the outer parts seem to be a huge rubble pile 20 miles deep.
Dr. J. A. Wood of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observa¬
tory noted at the Apollo 14 pre-mission science briefing:

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“It’s from this layer of broken-up rubbish that the astro¬
nauts make their collection.” (J. A. Wood et al. f “Lunar
Highlands Anorthosite and Its Implications,” Proceedings
of Apollo 11 Lunar Conference , Pergamon Press, 1970.)

Dr. Gary Latham, chief seismological researcher, points
out: “The evidence seems to indicate a broken up, rubble
structure in the outer 10 or 20 miles.” What could have
created this? “We are not able to say how this structure
came into being.”

Another mystery that can be solved in light of the Space¬
ship Moon with its inner hull of metal or metallic rock. For
if the Moon does have this hard inner shell, then the outer
rubble pile makes sense. Most scientists like Wood agree
that the outer layer of broken hard rock under the topsoil
was probably created by the unrelenting pounding of me¬
teors, asteroids, and comets striking the lunar surface over
eons. But why should it break up? Because after eons and
eons of the constant pounding Spaceship Moon obviously
received as it traveled through the cosmos, gradually but
persistently the outer .layers of the Moon would be broken
up as great meteors and asteroids (undoubtedly including
a comet or two) crashed into its crust. Like candy coating
covering a harder inner shell, the outer coating of rock
gradually began to crack and break up, leaving what we see
today—a huge rubble-pile structure in its outer crust which
is 10-20 miles deep.

Spaceship Moon solves yet another lunar conundrum.

THE MYSTERY OF SWARMS:

U THE MOON HAS THE SHAKES ”

Before man went to the Moon most scientists were con¬
vinced it was a dead world. Until recently, as far as man
could tell it was a very quiet world. But after man landed
and set up various seismological stations he soon discovered
that it was a very active world indeed. Swarms of tremors
or activities have been discovered to be taking place inside
this mystery world. Not only moonquakes or activities
deeper than any detected on Earth, focused 50Q-1000 miles
beneath the lunar surface, but something else that is very

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strange was detected more toward the outer surface.

Peculiar swarms of seismological activities are being
picked up by our sensitive seismometers. Swarms of what
scientists call “mini-quakes” for want of a better term have
been detected. These reports of internal activities or tremors
are over and above the larger, presumably tiny moonquakes
that are reported. Chief seismologist Gary Latham of
Columbia University Geological Observatory, Palisades,
New York, along with his expert staff has been analyzing
these strange unconventional seismic signals, which seem to
come, as he describes them, in “swarms.”

Latham notes: “During the period of swarm activity,
events occur as frequently as once every two hours over
intervals lasting several days. The source of swarms is un¬
known at present.” ( The Moon, An International Journal
of Lunar Studies, 1972. Also see Science News, November
29, 1971.) Another Moon mystery.

Instruments have recorded transmissions of high-fre¬
quency waves lasting from one to nine minutes. Scientists
are befuddled, although a few conjecture that they might
be landslides in the Moon’s'outer surface areas. They con¬
tinue on and on, so this is an unlikely explanation.

Literally thousands of these tiny tremors have been re¬
ported, all of them believed to be of natural origin. Latham
noticed one distinct pattern for these shakes and quakes:
Nearly all of them occur each month when the Moon comes
closest to the Earth. He naturally infers that the increased
tug on the Moon by the Earth’s gravity produces tidal
stresses on the Moon, causing some shifting and shaking of
its outer crust or shell. And the Earth’s tug on the Moon
is considerable, much greater than the Moon’s pull on
Earth.

Interestingly, the moonquakes occur most frequently
along the lunar rills, those narrow but mysterious deep
canyons that meander for hundreds of miles across the lunar
surface, which some scientists (as we noted in Our Mys¬
terious Spaceship Moon) are convinced “cannot exist.”

The existence of moonquakes or internal seismic activity
does not mean, Latham points out, that the Moon’s interior
is necessarily hot. They do not seem to be due to volcanic
activity but rather to the shifting of the crust of the Moon.

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These weak tremors are for the most part less than mag¬
nitude 2 on the Richter scale. They seldom reach depths
of more than half a mile.

Incidentally, this low level of seismic activity is another
indication that the Moon’s outer shell is rigid and stable,
far more so than our Earth’s. So conclude lunar experts
like Latham.

These myriad tremors have led one scientist to observe
that it almost seems as though the Moon has “the shakes.”
The cause is intriguingly mystifying. Could it be, however,
that some of these swarms of tremors are caused by the
cracked, broken crustal layers of rock which when out-of-
balance are adjusting themselves over the hard continuous
inner shell of Spaceship Moon? We do know, as we have
seen, that just such a shroud or band of extremely hard
material that conveys tremors extremely well and appears
to be metallic does exist there. Could it be that as the
Earth’s pull causes the outer crust of the Moon to shift
constantly back and forth over this hard inner shell seismic
evidence says the Moon has the shakes? The Moon’s huge
outer rubble pile’s continually shifting seems to be the
cause. And the solution seems to be the hull of our Space¬
ship Moon.

ALL SEISMIC AND LUNAR EVIDENCE -
HOLLOW METAL-HULLED SPACESHIP!

As we have seen, the entire scientific picture painted by
seismic signals as learned from the Apollo lunar program
indicates that our Moon is an artificial world inside—a

i.

spaceship, as the two Soviet scientists maintain.

We have also cited various studies done by a whole host
of scientific experts to back this frightening conclusion.

Finally, we have noted, how such a metal-hulled space¬
ship dissolves some of the sticky and perplexing problems
that have mystified lunar scientists ever since man began
to study our neighboring mystery world.

No wonder some NASA scientists have come up with a
model of the Moon that is a rock-encrusted hollow metallic
sphere. Such a Moon fits the evidence. And such a Moon
is exactly what our Soviet scientists claim our satellite to

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be—nothing else than a huge hollowed out, alien-created

spaceship!

The moon is teaching us extraordinary things . . .

— Dr, Gerald Wasserburg, Cal Tech , NASA scientist

ELEVEN _

ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTION INSIDE
THE MOON?

• What would cause a “Straight Wall ” Formation on the
Moon’s exterior—an unusual mountain or cliff-like “con¬
struction” that extends for 60 miles?

• What are the strange circular disks centered like a bulTs-
eye in the middle of the Moon’s circular seas? Why do
scientists say they should not be there—in fact cannot
exist?

® What evidence is there that gigantic girderlike blocks of
metal about 1000 kilometers long exist inside the Moon?

• How do scientists explain identical seismographic signal
trackings that keep coming from the Moon’s interior? Why
is this seemingly impossible? How does it indicate artificial
construction in the Moon’s interior?

Astronomers in the past actually claimed to have detected
strange “constructions” on the outer surface of our satellite.
For centuries they stared and strained their eyes through
Earth telescopes, sometimes perceiving strange sights on
the lunar surface. The German astronomer F. Gruithuisen
insisted that he saw what he referred to as “ramparts” on
the Moon—artificial fortresses built apparently by some
kind of Moon beings. He even claimed that he saw the
roofs of their houses and could make out their roads.

Although Gruithuisen undoubtedly had an overactive
imagination, he was considered a competent astronomer
and made several notable contributions to our general
knowledge and understanding of the Moon. Similarly,
there is no doubt that most of the so-called artificial con-

structions detected on our Moon’s surface were actually
mistaken interpretations of natural features. However, as
we have already seen (and shall see again in a future chap¬
ter), apparently a number are almost certainly some kind
of artificial construction.

Furthermore, as the late H. P. Wilkins observed, it is
hard to believe that these competent observers were com¬
pletely mistaken, that what they saw was purely a product
of their imagination. In some cases they most certainly saw
something. What that “something” was we can today only
guess.

THE STRANGE STRAIGHT WALL ON THE MOON

One of the natural features of the Moon that perplexed
astronomers in the past even as it causes wonder among
moongazers today is the strange straight structure known
as the “Straight Wall.” One astronomy guide says that it is
a “feature so artificial in appearance” that in the late nine¬
teenth century it was frequently referred to as “The Rail¬
way.” Some astronomers observing this strange structure,
which seemingly rises from the bowels of the Moon, going
steadily straight outward (although not perfectly straight
for over 60 miles), claimed that it could be nothing else
but a “constructed wall” made without a doubt by intelli¬
gent beings. This was a common opinion in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.

Today, of course, astronomers unanimously disagree
with this interpretation; the “Straight Wall” appears to be
merely a huge fault line. Still, all agree that it is most un¬
usual—it looks almost as if something underneath were
pushing up through the crust of the Moon,

Exactly! say Vasin and Shcherbakov. For our Soviet
spaceship scientists speculate that it is not a surface con¬
struction, although it is not completely a natural feature
either. It is strangely straight, they hold, because this most
splendid feature of the lunarscape—a straight “wall” nearly
500 yards wide and over 60 miles long—“formed as a
result of one of the armour plates bending under the im¬
pact of celestial torpedoes and raising one of its straight
even edges.”

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It is in effect a section of the spaceship hull or shell that
has been ruptured or otherwise damaged that creates this
unusual feature. It is interesting to note that today the out¬
line of a huge, 100-mile-wide crater caused by a meteor
which impacted here eons ago right over this very area can
be seen. Could this have unhinged the spaceship hull, as
the Soviet scientists speculate?

Frankly, this bizarre proposal appears to be sheer guess¬
work; yet, strangely enough, on the back side almost di¬
rectly opposite the “straight wall” is a huge crack, 150 miles
long and 5 miles wide in some places. Is it too farfetched
to speculate that if the Moon does have the inner metallic
hull of a spaceship—and there is every indication that it
does—this vast opening is somehow related in its formation
to the Straight Wall? Could it be that when the bow plating
of the hull was ruptured or damaged, thus pushing up the
huge fault line, as our Soviet spaceship theorists speculate,
at the same time it pulled open this great crack formation
on the far side of the Moon?

The huge circular seas of lava, which are apparently
loaded with metals, would have required gargantuan equip¬
ment to construct. If this is correct, the Soviet scientists
hold, they could be ponderous enough to cause gravita¬
tional anomalies that could be detected by man.

Amazingly, as our early unmanned spacecraft were
orbiting the Moon, they detected such gravitational anom¬
alies over the maria! In 1968 tracking data for the lunar
or biters first indicated that massive concentrations (mas-
cons) existed under the surface of these circular maria. In
fact, the gravitational anomalies were so pronounced that
the spacecraft actually dipped slightly and accelerated when
passing over the circular lunar plains.

Irving Michelson notes: “When the spacecraft passed
close to these buried masses, the resultant lunar gravita¬
tional attraction it experienced was abruptly and drastically
modified, thereby changing the subsequent path in much
the same manner as if engine thrust had been applied.”
Eugene Rabinovich, ed.,. Man on the Moon , Basic Books

1969.)

Scientists calculated that the cause was “enormous con¬
centrations” of dense, heavy matter which, as one scientist

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graphically phrased it, was “centered like a bull’s-eye under
the circular maria.”

Scientists at first speculated that these mascons were just
intense concentrations of lava that filled the deep basins.
Opponents of this theory claimed that there was just not
enough lava there to produce the effect the mascons were
giving.

Other lunar experts thought that the mascons might be
the remains of huge meteors or asteroids that hit here
when the maria were created. However, this offers even
more difficulties, not the least of which is, as we have seen,
the solid evidence that the circular dark plains of the Moon
were not caused by celestial bombardment but by massive
upwelling from some internal source.

We can only speculate and guess. It may almost seem as
if in this “guesswork” we were weaving science fiction here.
But as we have seen, the guesses at least to some extent rest
on solid scientific fact.

WHAT LIES INSIDE SPACESHIP MOON?

Although astronomers in the past have had a field day
observing strange things on the surface of our Moon, no
one has speculated that artificial constructions of all kinds
have existed inside the Moon. That is, until Vasin and
Shcherbakov came along with their Spaceship Moon theory.

These two Soviet Academy of Sciences researchers spec¬
ulate that inside the Moon all kinds of constructions, in¬
cluding machinery and engines, must exist yet to this day.
As they note: “In other words, everything necessary to
enable this ‘Caravelle of the Universe’ to serve as a kind
of Noah’s Ark of intelligence, perhaps even as the home of
a whole civilization envisaging a prolonged (thousands of
millions of years) existence and long wanderings through
space (thousands of millions of miles).”

If they are right in this bold idea, and the Moon is
actually a spaceship, naturally the machines and artificial
constructions, whatever they might be, undoubtedly still
exist inside our Spaceship Moon.

Amazingly, from seismic study and the data of very

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sensitive instrumental detection comes evidence that some
kind of artificial construction does exist inside Luna.

MACHINES FOR MAKING THE MARIA?

The authors of the Spaceship Moon theory, who believe
that tremendous amounts of metallic rock were poured
forth onto the surface in the creation of a hollowed-out
moonship world, also are convinced that “the stocks of
materials and machinery for doing this are no doubt still
where they were.” They also claim that scientists have de¬
tected them. It should be noted, however, that they are only
speculating that this is what they are. Here is another pos¬
sibility, expressed by Irving Michelson in Man on the Moon:
“Cassini’s assertion of the perfect uniformity of the moon’s
rotational motion might also be explained by the mascons,
since their effect would be to contribute to a lunar structure
particularly conducive to the extremely stable motion that
the observed regularity represents. Newtonian mechanics
and gravitation certainly also stand firm in that new pic¬
ture, and the formerly inexplicable high values of the latest
inertia moment difference can likewise be fully accounted
for by the presence of the mascons.”

Note also that the mascons, whatever they may be, are
huge circular disks centered like a bull’s-eye smack in the
center of each circular maria. Scientists have pointed out
that they could not be the “remains” of celestial* meteors,
for those would have vaporized upon impact, since they
hit with enough speed to cause fierce explosions equal to
the force of any atomic bomb.

Scientists are perplexed and befuddled by the mascons
in more ways than one. In fact, ever since their discovery
in the late sixties the mascons have proved to be a major
problem. As one scientist has put it: “No one seems to
know quite what to do with them.”

Actually, scientists did not expect to find such gravita¬
tional anomalies under the billiard-table-like lunar plains.
Our early Apollo expeditions carried out a series of ex¬
periments verifying their existence. Walter Brown of the
Jet Propulsion Lab at Pasadena confessed: “We expected

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on the marias signals would reveal smooth subsurface struc¬
tures and the opposite would be true for the highlands . . .
but the sounder signals were well-behaved over the High¬
lands and bounced around over the maria, implying sub¬
surface features . . . disc-like objects.”

What they are is a major Moon mystery. It now appears
that the mascons are broad disk-shaped objects that could
be possibly some kind of artificial construction. For huge
circular disks are not likely to be beneath each huge maria,
centered like bull’s-eyes in the middle of each, by coinci¬
dence or accident.

But there is yet another mystery with the mascons be¬
yond just their unsuspected, unlikely, and hard-to-account-
for existence—a mystery which may furnish us with still
another clue proving them to be not completely natural.
The mascons are situated in seas of metallic lava, and it
is perplexing that they have not sunk away from the sur¬
face. Any way scientists look at the maria they appear to
have been formed by heat. Why didn’t they sink to the
bottom of these molten lava seas before the lava hardened?

Dr. Michael Yates, a leading NASA scientist, summarizes
this problem: “There is a serious problem with the mascons,
with any theory that says the moon is ‘hot.’ For there is
no reason why the structures would not sink into a hot
moon, unless that inner structure cooled soon ... or unless
there is some insulating region between the outer and inner
areas.” (Science News , April 3, 1971.)

Of course, if they are some kind of artificial construction,
as Shcherbakov and Vasin suggest, then these problems
disappear. In the orthodox view the mascons should not be
there!

Then what in the name of Apollo are they? Perhaps the
answer to this puzzle might be found in terms of intelligent
alien formation of the mascons, as the Soviet spaceship
scientists insist.

THOUSAND-KILOMETER-LONG GIRDERLIKE
BLOCKS OF IRON IN THE MOON?

If there is that much artificial construction and “all man¬
ner of machinery,” as the Soviet scientists suggest, wouldn’t

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our sensitive seismometers on the Moon have detected
them?

Surprisingly, they have! From the data of our sensitive
seismometers comes a report that indicates that artificial
construction of some kind does definitely exist inside Luna.
A science report from the office of Dr. Gary Latham,
NASA’s chief seismologist, reveals that two “belts of activ¬
ity deep inside the Moon have been detected through our
sensitive seismometers.”

The report claims that “the belts are at least 1000 kilo¬
meters long and 1000 kilometers deep and do not appear to
intersect.” (Science News t April 7, 1973.) It observes:
“The most exciting and puzzling aspect of the active zones
(or belts) is their distribution.”

Dr. Latham frankly admits he is puzzled by the entire
discovery. “I’m mystified. We can’t explain it yet”

Latham rules out the possibility that they are great frac¬
ture systems, since the quakes in a given belt “do not show
a systematic correlation with lunar tides.” “Another possi¬
bility is that they are composed of material such as em¬
bedded blocks of iron that would cause them to have
different elastic properties from the rest of the Moon.”
(Science News , April 7, 1973. Emphasis added.)

Embedded blocks of iron found in natural form inside
the Moon? It is not explained how this is possible, although
the report implies that since the belts are 1000 kilometers
long, the “embedded blocks of iron” are also about that
long!

Obviously, there is no way iron blocks like that could
exist naturally inside the Moon. The thousand-kilometer-
long blocks of metal simply do not exist naturally. In light
of the Spaceship Moon theory, huge girderlike blocks of
metal become not only understandable but something that
should be expected.

THE MYSTERY OF MOON MYSTERIES—
IDENTICAL SIGNAL TRACKINGS

Unbelievably, there is even further evidence of artificial
construction inside our Moon. This evidence again comes
from our seismometers on the Moon. For our scientists

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have found an even more perplexing puzzle—this one abso¬
lutely mind-boggling—and that is the preciseness with
which moonquakes are triggered at not only the same
time but, mystifyingly, in the same way. The seismographic
readouts indicate they are always identical!

For perhaps the most striking phenomenon of all regard¬
ing our strange Moon is that the seismic recordings each
month conform to nearly the same identical pattern. The
sequence of events, as Earth’s gravity tugs at the Moon,
seems to be the same each month, rendering the same
“seismic signature.” Frankly, what is happening appears
to be impossible!

Lunar seismic disturbances are assumed to be generated
by stresses building up-and sliding or other movement of
rock faces. In the case of the Moon, lunar expert Gary
Latham explains, probably the tidal pull builds up until the
“friction can no longer hold these surfaces together and
they just pop; they slide. . . But of course they would
not slide each and every time in the same way at the same
time. And yet they appear to be doing just that! The hap¬
penstance shifting of differing rock layers performing in the
same way appears to be impossible. Dr. Latham admits this
phenomenon defies explanation.

Moonquakes occur at monthly intervals like clockwork.
When the Moon is closest (perigee) the first popping noises
come. Actually, the very first occur five days before the
Moon reaches perigee in its orbit, and then again another
event indicates something stirring inside the Moon three
days before perigee. The amazing thing is the clockwork
precision with which this all happens. Scientists find it
absolutely astonishing. “You can nearly set your watch
by it,” confesses Latham. (NASA Science Briefing, Hous¬
ton, May 26, 1971.)

Even stranger than the identical timing is the phenom¬
enon of the identical signal trackings scientists are receiving
from our lunar seismometers!

It is understandable that the gravitational pull of the
Moon can cause the tides and even uplift the solid Earth,
causing it to bulge a few inches at high tide. Earth exerts
a much greater pull on the Moon—in fact, twenty times as
much. This is what makes the result so baffling. Seismic

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signals being received at different seismological stations on
the Moon are identical for each respective station.

A New York Times report spells out this perplexing
puzzle: “A remarkable recently discovered feature of these
events is that each one transmits a complex but identical
sequence of signals through the Moon. If one lays the
records of tremors recorded at one station for a number
of these events above and below one another, they are vir¬
tually the same!” The report adds: “The fact that these
events are always identical is remarkable, according to
seleneologists.” (New York Tim$s s August 4, 1972, and
April 27," 1971.)

That is the understatement of the century. For how
could the shifting of rock and crust be always the same?
How could they produce identical seismographic re¬
cordings?

New York Times editor Walter Sullivan compares the
likelihood of this happening to the possibility of the stock
market always registering the same each and every time.
“It is as though the ups and downs of the stock market
repeated themselves precisely for each period of fluctu¬
ation.” Impossible? How could each seismographic station
on the Moon come up with virtually identical signal se¬
quences for that station, time after time, month after
month? The records for Apollo 12 site are thus all the
same; those at Apollo 14 are the same.

What could cause identical seismic signal trackings froim
inside our Moon? Latham confesses he has no explanation.
He is utterly mystified. Latham admits that earthquakes
naturally produce different seismic recordings each and
every time. There are very rare instances of identical re¬
cordings made in the Himalayan Mountains—but only rare
instances, not each and every time, as they are inside the
Moon.

In our opinion, it is hard to understand how this could
be a natural phenomenon. However, something artificially
constructed could produce the same identical seismic result,
which could occur over and over. Could not this be the
answer to this mystifying mystery of our Moon?

Could not, for instance, two long girderlike blocks of
metal pulled by the gravity of Earth move the same way

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each and every time, thus producing identical signal track¬
ings for each respective seismometer on the Moon?

Absolutely. In fact, you would expect it. This is, in our
opinion, striking evidence that the Moon does in fact have
such artificial construction! No other explanation seems
plausible.

Of all the major pieces of evidence proving the Moon is
a spaceship this we are convinced is the single most im¬
portant. The implication of this evidence is clear—the
Moon does have artificial construction on the inside. It is
a spaceship. What other answer can there be?

The more we see of the moon, the more complicated
we know it is.

— Dr. Robin Brett NASA scientist

TWELVE _

THE MOON IS NO LONGER A MYSTERY

What further evidence indicates that the Moon is a space¬
ship?

• What evidence is there that the Moon is much older than
Earth and therefore came from some other corner of the
universe?

• Why is it that some scientists claim that Moon rocks
have been found which were dated up to 7 and even 20
billion years of age?

• Did NASA really reveal a rock that was 5.3 billion years
old—nearly a billion years older than the estimated age
of Earth and solar system?

• Why did one Nobel prize-winning scientist and leading
lunar expert claim that certain elements found on the Moon
indicate that the Moon is much older than Earth but that
he cannot explain how it got here?

• Why were rocks that were dated 4.4 and 4.6 billion
years old called “the younger rocks on the Moon” by lead¬
ing lunar experts?

• Why do great amounts of argon 40 found in lunar sam-

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pies lead scientists to conclude that the Moon must be at
least 7 billion years old—almost twice as old as our own
Sun and Earth?

• Why does the lunar soil appear to be a billion years
older than Moon rocks? And why is this on the surface
seemingly impossible? Why does the Spaceship Moon theory
dissolve this “impossibility”?.

• Why did a group of scientists propose that the Moon
was formed between the stars before our Sun was born,
and later captured by Earth? How was it then drawn into
a stable, circular orbit around Earth? Why is this most
difficult to explain?

• How does the mystifyingly different chemical composi¬
tion of the Moon indicate that it was not formed in its
present orbit around our Earth but somewhere else in the
universe?

• Why does the Moon appear today to scientists to have
been “made inside out,” as one leading NASA scientist put
it? Why does this exactly fit' the hollo wed-out-spaceship
theory?

• Why are the Moon’s upper 8 miles so highly radioactive,
loaded with elements that should not be there naturally?

• How can NASA scientists explain the huge cloud of
water vapor 100 miles square that was discovered on this
dry, dry world? What evidence exists that it definitely came
from the Moon’s interior, and why does this perfectly fit
the spaceship theory?

• Clear evidence exists that the Moon was once a hot
body; equally valid evidence exists that the Moon could
never have been that hot naturally. Why is it that scientists
cannot resolve this contradiction, and why is it that the
Soviet spaceship theory does?

• Why does the Moon yield so many contradictions and
paradoxes, and why is it that all are easily understandable
in terms of the spaceship theory?

Long ago it was thought that standing in Luna’s cold

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white light too long could cause you to go mad—to become
a lunatic! Undoubtedly there are people who hear me
enthusiastically proclaim that the Moon may be a space¬
ship and think: “Wilson, you have been standing in the
light of the full Moon too long! You and your Soviet
theorists are lunatics!”

Perhaps when you first heard of the Russian theory you
thought the same thing. But now that you have covered
the latest mind-boggling Apollo findings and see how
everything fits the spaceship picture so neatly, maybe you
have found your mind bending a bit.

Former NASA science researcher William Corliss in his
book Mysteries of the Universe observed before our astro¬
nauts went to the Moon: “The astronauts of Project Apollo
are journeying to a world that is radically different from
ours. They should bring back not only answers to our ques¬
tions about lunar activity but mysteries far deeper than
‘mere lights on the moon.* ”

Little did Corliss realize how prophetic his words would
be! Instead of giving Earth’s scientists a clear picture of the
origin and nature of our neighbor, the Apollo missions
merely added mystery upon mystery, until now it seems
that science finds the Moon a complete enigma.

In my search for the truth about our Moon—whatever it
might be—I came across a fascinating article in the New
York Times Magazine (May 1972) entitled “The Moon
is More of a Mystery Than Ever,” written by Earl Ubell,
then science editor of CBS News in New York. He stated
that our Apollo findings swirled with contradictions and
mysteries. Some facts indicated that the Moon was formed
cold; others that it was hot; some that the Moon does not
have a magnetic field, others that it once did, and so on.

In fact, probably the most pervasive findings in all our
lunar research was the discovery that the deeper scientists
probed, trying to unravel the truth about the Moon’s
make-up and origins, the more confused they became.
Equally valid data and evidence seemed to back con¬
tradictory conclusions. About the only thing for certain
the scientific probings produced was just more uncertainty
—more questions and more and more mysteries. In fact,
instead of giving us answers to key questions and perplexing

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lunar problems, as one NASA expert Dr. Gerald Wasser-
burg put it: “The Moon is giving us answers we don’t even
have questions for.”

Over 800 geologists, chemists, geochemists, geophysical
and astrophysical experts, physicists and astronomers, in¬
cluding all the greats in those fields, have studied the Moon
evidence, the rock and soil samples and the other informa¬
tion, in a valiant attempt to learn the truth about the per¬
plexing satellite orbiting our Earth.

These giants of the intellectual world have undertaken
perhaps the toughest detective job ever tackled by man.
But as Columbia University’s Dr. Gary Latham, one of
NASA’s leading lights, confessed, it nevertheless is “the
most exciting business in the world.” This despite the fact
that its results have turned out to be mostly frustrating
with conflicting, contradictory evidence and clues all over
the place confusing even the most knowledgeable lunar
experts.

Ubell summarized the situation in his article: “Most
moonmen believe that there is a Kepler or Copernicus, or a
Darwin, or an Einstein waiting in the wings to take all the
contradictory data and theory and weld them into one ex¬
planation. That synthesis could have as great an impact on
the intellectual and ordinary life of man as did the ideas
of a sun-centered world, the theory of human evolution
and the theory of relativity.”

If the Soviet spaceship theory is confirmed, then indeed
Ubell would be even more correct than he dreamed!

The amazing outcome, as we have seen, is that the lunar
evidence indeed appears to do just that—it proves that this
strange world of the Moon is a hollow and therefore ar¬
tificial satellite—in short, a spaceship!

For, remarkably, the myriad mysteries of the Moon un¬
covered by our continuing lunar space probes appear to dis¬
appear in light of Spaceship Moon. In fact, amazingly, they
are not mysteries at all—for under the artificial Moon
theory they are actually what would be expected .

In his Times article Ubell lists a number of mysteries
of the Moon that today perplex lunar experts. Let us re¬
view them in light of years of matured scientific detective

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work to see if they indeed do disappear when scrutinized
through this Soviet artificial-Moon theory.

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The moon did have a far older surface than the earth .

— Dr. Robert J as trow

MYSTERY #1: THE AGE OF THE MOON—

IS IT FAR OLDER THAN EARTH?

When our astronauts first went to the Moon and brought
back rocks for scientists to examine and analyze, scientists
never expected to find the Moon rocks far older than the
Earth or even the solar system.

As Earl Ubell tells us: “Everything about the moon is old
. . . old . . . old. Scientists certainly expected things on the
Moon to have been relatively undisturbed, but they were
not prepared for the pervading antiquity.”

Amazingly over 99 percent of the Moon rocks brought
back turned out to be older than 90 per cent of the oldest
rocks found on our planet Earth. Some rocks, a few scien¬
tists insist, are far older than even our star, the Sun.

The very first rocks that astronaut Neil Armstrong picked
up at random after landing on the Sea of Tranquility turned
out to be more than 3.6 billion years old! This is quite
remarkable in light of the fact that our scientists on Earth
have searched for centuries to find rock even near that old.

The oldest rocks ever found on Earth up to recently were
around 3.5 billion years old, and these were searched out of
some African crannies. A few slightly older, now purported¬
ly the oldest rocks in the world, have since been discovered
in Greenland. They are dated around 3.7 billion years old—
approximately the same age as the rock from the Sea of
Tranquility.

But this was only the beginning of the Lunar antiquity
story. One rock from man’s first trip to the Moon turned
out to be a bafflng 4.3 billion years old. Another puzzler
(Rock 13) checked out at an unbelievable 4.5 billion years
of age. Finally, an Apollo 11 soil sample turned out to be
4.6 billion years old—the estimated age of the entire solar
system itself. Strangely, the soil was about a billion years
older than the rocks around it.

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But this entire story is much more remarkable than it
appears on the surface. For scientists had evidence that
the maria were the younger parts of the Moon, so that
the rocks found there would be among the younger rocks
of the Moon. In other words, as science reporter Richard
Lewis puts it, “rocks as old as the oldest ever found on
Earth were actually the younger rocks of the Moon!” {The
Voyages of Apollo .) Amazing. Unbelievable.

Soviet unmanned landings on the Moon have yielded
similar results. The Soviet probes have returned with sam¬
ples of that alien world from several of her “seas.” One of
the Moon’s older seas—or so it appears—turned out to
be the Sea of Fertility. For the data indicated that it was 4.6
billion years old—as old as the solar system itself. But
scientists have a conundrum on their hands, for other equal¬
ly valid evidence indicates that such a sea actually is the
youngest part of our' planetary companion world. How is
this possible?

The age of our planet Earth is now generally agreed to
be about 4.6 billion years—the age of the Sun and its
planets. The best estimate of the age of the solar system
derives from the age given to meteors—about 4.6 billion
years old. Yet there is solid evidence that some Moon rocks
and lunar soil itself indicate they’re far older than
meteorites. Richard Lewis summarizes the problem: “The
meteorites are the Rosetta Stones of the Solar System. They
are dated 4.5 billion years. Since they are composed of
primitive material, they are believed to be the earliest con¬
densates from the solar nebulae.” {The Voyages Qf Apollo,)

Unquestionably, the evidence indicates that something
was askew with the Moon. It appeared that the Moon just
did not fit into our solar system family. But most NASA
scientists stubbornly refused to believe that the Moon could
be older than meteorites or Earth, let alone the solar sys¬
tem. They clung to their old orthodox view unwilling to
allow their old theories to die in the face of overwhelming
evidence. If the evidence does not fit, discard it, seemed to
be their rule. Yet admittedly, early in the Apollo program,
a NASA scientist stated the problem clearly: “The Moon
is 4.6 billion years old, as old as the solar system itself
and perhaps even older than the Earth.”

Dr. Harold Urey, highly respected lunar expert does

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note, however, that when we say the Earth is that age we
are, of course, making an assumption. Urey points out:
“We have no proof.” Urey, as we shall see, was one of the
scientific experts who came up with solid evidence that the
Moon is much older than our Earth or our solar system.
Proof which apparently has not been yet accepted—for
NASA still clings stubbornly to that 4.6-billion-year limit.
As Dr. Gerald Wasserburg, a jovial scientific scholar with
a wit as sharp as his razorlike mind, responded when asked
what hypothesis he favored concerning the Moon’s ap¬
proximate age;

Some like it hot,

Some like it cold,

Some like it in the pot,

4.6 billion years old.

However, Wasserburg was so confused by the puzzles
and problems of dating lunar materials brought back by
our astronauts that he facetiously referred to his own scien¬
tific lab at Cal Tech as the “Lunatic Asylum” and himself
and his co-workers as “inmates.” Stuffy orthodox scientists
thought this was in poor taste and criticized him for it.
Undaunted Wasserburg ignored the criticism and put a
brass plate on the door of his lab. It reads: lunatic
asylum.

Wasserburg expresses a serious point in his lighthearted
banter poking fun at himself and his lunar colleagues. The
Moon with all its paradoxes, contradictions and perplexing
conundrums is driving scientists crazy.

Although NASA scientists claim agreement that the
moon is no more than 4.6 billion years of age, still, ac¬
cording to Harvard’s Sky and Telescope , a highly respected
astronomy journal, the Lunar Conference of 1973 revealed
a moon rock that had been dated at 5.3 billion years old.
Shockingly, this is nearly a billion years older than the
oldest estimate ever given to Earth and the solar system
itself.

Yet if we are to believe other claims, much older Moon
samples have been brought back from this strange world
circling our skies. For another report claimed that based

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on the potassium-argon system of dating, now accepted by
science as the most accurate dating system, “some of the
rocks gave an unacceptable age of 7 billion years.” (Editors
of Pensees, Velikovsky Reconsidered , Doubleday, 1976.)
This same journal refers to yet another study which asserts
that “two Apollo XII rocks have been dated at 20 billion
years of age.” This would be about four times the age of
our planet! To this author’s knowledge, this is as old as
the very oldest scientific estimate ever placed on any por¬
tion of the universe!

Admittedly, as science writer Richard Lewis points out
in his definitive work The Voyages of Apollo: “The dating
game scientists played with the lunar rocks was charac¬
terized by discrepancy, inexactness and contradictory mea¬
surements.” Lewis notes that tests done to measuring the
rocks’ decay of uranium and thorium led some scientists
to come up with older figures than those obtained by
potassium-argon or rubidium-strontium decay methods.
Says Lewis: “Unless there was error, this implied that the
uranium-lead system data were revealing materials more
primitive than the rocks they formed.”

The most popular way of explaining it, NASA Moon
expert Leon Silver explains, “would be to suggest that the
isotope systems of uranium, thorium and lead have a mem¬
ory of some prior stage of rock evolution.” ( The Voyages
of Apollo,)

Other evidence tends to prove that the Moon is much
older than Earth and therefore had to come from some
other corner of the universe. Dr. D. Heymann, expert
geologist at Rice Institute, who examined the lunar surface
soil, said that scientists found “an unusually large amount
of argon-40, an isotope of the noble gas argon.” Walter
Sullivan, former science editor of the New York Times ,
said that the surprising amount of this argon gas in Moon
samples has shocking implications for man’s Moon. “The
Moon would have to be 7 billion years old,” Dr. Heymann
figured, to account for “an accumulation of argon-40. . .
The implication here, of course, is that our Moon has not
always been circling our planet. ( New York Times , January
7, 1970.)

Dr. Harold Urey came up with similar findings based

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on different evidence furnished by returned lunar samples.
Urey claims that certain elements have been discovered on
the Moon which indicate definitely that the Moon is much
older than our Earth. Writing in the technical science jour¬
nal Chemistry , Urey claims that “moon rock has been
shown to contain xenon isotopes from fission of plutonium-
244 which are not found on earth. ...” This “indicated]
that the moon is much older,” concludes Dr. Urey. {Chem¬
istry, February 1974.)

If this is true, it would of course mean that the Moon
came from somewhere else and was captured in Earth’s
gravitational field sometime in Earth’s past. Urey agrees,
noting; “But despite the evidence, most scientists feel the
capture theory is unlikely.” {Chemistry, February 1974.)

With all this weighty evidence on their hands, it is not
surprising that rather early in our Apollo lunar program
some scientists formulated a theory that would fit the Soviet
spaceship hypothesis. According to Walter Sullivan in his
article (“Some Startling Findings on Those Moon Rocks”):
“Another proposal has been made that the Moon formed
between the stars long before the Sun was born and then
was captured by the solar system{New York Times
September 21, 1969. Emphasis added.)

He adds: “How it then was drawn into a stable orbit
around the earth would be difficult to'explain.”

Many scientists claim it’s not just difficult but nearly
impossible. NASA scientist Dr. Robert Jastrow admits that
“the difficulty with that theory is that such a capture is
extremely unlikely. For capture to occur, the Moon must
have come by the earth at exactly the right distance, neither
so far away that it was whipped past the earth without
dropping into orbit, nor so close as to be drawn into a
collision course. Calculations indicate that the range of
approach distances that will lead to capture is very narrow,
and that the probability of capture is exceedingly minute.

“Thus,” admits Jastrow, “at the present time there is no
adequate explanation for the evidence of the Moon as
Earth’s satellite.” {New York Times, November 9, 1969.)

We note: The same thing is true today. Nothing can
explain the mysteries of our Moon except the Soviet space¬
ship theory, which holds that our Moon (which is probably

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far older than our own star) formed out in the universe
and was converted by unknown alien intelligences into a
spaceship. At some indeterminate time in our past it was
steered into orbit around our world.

For to assume that it could have done this without in¬
telligent direction goes against all the laws of celestial
mechanics, especially when one considers the Moon’s nearly
circular orbit.

For as Walter Sullivan concludes: “However, specialists
in the movements of celestial bodies under the gravitational
influence of one another—the science of celestial me¬
chanics—found it hard to explain how the moon, if it
came from afar and was captured by the Earth’s gravity,
achieved so well behaved and circular an orbit.” (New
York Times , November 16, 1969.)

HOW MOON SOIL IS OLDER THAN MOON ROCKS

We have seen the perplexing antiquity of Moon rocks.
But another conundrum makes scientists even more puz¬
zled. The soil in which the Moon rocks lay proved to be
generally a billion years older than the oldest of the ancient
lunar rocks. The contradictory age of the soil really threw
Moon scientists into a lunar tailspin. Rocks taken from the
Sea of Tranquility as old as they were proved nothing com¬
pared to the soil in which they rested, which proved to be
at least 4.6 billion years old.

Other Apollo soil samples generally proved this lunar
rule that the ancient soil was somehow older than the rocks.
The Apollo 12 soil was a billion years older than the rocks
that lay strewn in it. Scientists were absolutely bewildered,
for this seemed to be utterly impossible. Scientists studying
planets know that the soil is largely the powered remains
of the rocks lying amid it. On the Moon, which for eons
has been banged and bombarded by meteors and other
heavenly missiles this should especially prove to be the
case. To find rocks and pebbles on the Moon that were so
old was perplexing enough, but to find that the soil in
which they lay was approximately a billion years older
really baffled scientists.

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If this were not enough, our bewildered scientists were
staggered by additional puzzling discoveries that followed
in rapid succession. Lunar experts soon found out through
chemical analysis that the lunar soil did not come from
the rocks around it but from somewhere else. Where our
poor confused lunar experts could only guess. In truth,
they simply do not know.

At various yearly Lunar Science Conferences, which at¬
tract hundreds of scientists from all over the world not only
as participants but as observers, this was one of the fore¬
most topics of discussion. At these so-called Lunar Rock
Festivals (as the scientists themselves dubbed the gather¬
ings) researchers discussed various theories as to how lunar
dirt and dust could be a billion years older than the rocks
surrounding it. Where could it have come from? Says sci¬
ence reporter Richard Lewis: “In vain did one expert after
another attempt explanations. . . .” In vain.

Unfortunately, to our knowledge orthodox straitjacketed
scientists never openly considered the Soviet spaceship the¬
ory that the Moon was fashioned out of a natural asteroid
and converted into a spaceship. If they did they could
have understood how it could be a cosmic body that old.
Also hew it had to come from a much older section of the
universe. But as it traveled through the cosmos, as Shelley
puts it so strikingly, “among stars of different birth,”
clearly it would have passed through different cosmic “time
zones,” through areas much younger. In so doing it obvi¬
ously picked up rocks and dust particles in the form of
meteors and meteorites (including micrometeorites). And
this could account for the rocks being younger than the
ancient lunar soil itself. Moreover, it would solve another
puzzling problem about the Moon. For although scientists
found it nearly impossible to reconcile the great difference
in the age of soil and Moon rocks, there also proved to be
significant age differences among the rocks and rubble of
the Moon itself. Scientists also were in a quandary over the
age discrepancy of lunar rocks discovered lying side by
side. As our astronauts made more and more trips to the
Moon and took more and more samples, our Moon experts
became more perplexed and mystified. Yet this too, in light
of the Soviet theory, is understandable, for if our Spaceship

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Moon did travel through the cosmos it would necessarily
have picked up rocks and particles of widely different ages.
This much is clear: The Soviet Spaceship Moon theory
makes understandable yet another Moon mystery I

MYSTERY #2: THE MYSTIFYING CHEMICAL
MAKE-UP OF THE MOON

What is the Moon made of? Certainly not green cheese,
although Dr. O. L. Anderson now of the University of
California (Los Angeles) reports striking similarities be¬
tween the characteristics of lunar rocks and some cheeses.
Strangely enough, astronauts also reported that at certain
times under the pale greenish-blue earthlight, the surface
of the Moon reflects a greenish hue.

One of the major findings of the Apollo explorations is
that the Moon is “chemically different at different depths.”
Scientists have concluded that the Moon does not have the
simplistic billiard-ball make-up that some scientists former¬
ly conjectured it might. It is not homogeneous throughout.

Moreover, the composition is strikingly different from
that of our Earth. From the more than a dozen different
American and Soviet manned and unmanned explorations
of Luna, we learned, much to our surprise, that our satellite
is quite different in make-up. Elements have been discov¬
ered on her in great abundance which are extremely rare
on Earth. Even more surprising, some elements found on
the Moon have never previously been known to exist here
in their natural forms. The Argone National Laboratory
reported at the Third Scientific Conference in Houston that
they had found uranium 236 and neptunium 237 in lunar
samples taken by Apollo 12 and 14, elements never pre¬
viously found before in nature!

A compound never before known to exist was a strange
component called by Earth scientists “Kreep.” It contains
a high content of potassium, rare Earth elements, and
phosphorous. This compound was discovered in Apollo 12
samples and dated at about 4.5 billion years old. The
mysterious component is believed to be a part of the

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Moon’s ancient crust, although this contention has been
challenged.

Moon scientists also announced the discovery of an
entirely new mineral found in lunar samples. Science News
reported (January 10, 1970) that this “unnamed mineral
is a titanium-iron-zirconium silicate with concentrations of
calcium and yttrium and lesser amounts of eight other ele¬
ments including aluminum and sodium.”

Many of these, as the reader now undoubtedly recog¬
nizes, are metallic elements with a very high melting point,
those tough metals known as refractory elements.

We have already seen that scientists are puzzled as to the
source of the intense heat required to melt and fuse these
metals on the Moon. Although Earth scientists have not yet
resolved this difficulty (except for the two Soviet scientists),
it becomes clear that it was done through artificial means
in the process of creating this cosmic Noah’s Ark.

Dr. S. Ross Taylor, the geochemist in charge of chemical
analysis for NASA, observed that it is strange that highly
refractory metals should be found in such great abundance
on the Moon, especially titanium, a metal used on Earth
in building spaceships and supersonic jets. He called it a
“fortuitous metal to find on the Moon”—a very apt metal
for our Spaceship Moon. And this is an apt comparison,
for if the Soviet researchers are correct in their theory that
our Moon is really a hollowed-out spaceship then his re¬
mark is striking.

MYSTERY #3: WHY IS THE MOON SO
DIFFERENT FROM EARTH AND SO
DIFFERENT AT VARYING DEPTHS?

The Moon's composition is not at all what it should
be had the Moon been formed in its present orbit
around the earth,

— Dr, Harold Urey , Science News

October 4 , 1972 , p, 246,

A close corollary of this second mystery is another mys¬
tery—“the moon differs from the Earth in a very strange
way,” notes Ubell.

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Before man went to our Moon most scientists believed
that our satellite was formed out of the same cosmic cloud
as Earth, born with it about 4.6 billion years ago. It was
therefore expected that its composition would be similar
to that of our own planet. But again another big surprise:
It isn't. Our lunar companion differs radically in make-up
from Earth—and in a very mystifying way.

From our many unmanned and manned trips to the
Moon scientists have gotten a fairly complete picture of
our neighboring world, even though admittedly it is a very
confusing one. Naturally, of course, since the lunar evi¬
dence gathered is limited, what we can learn about our
Moon is limited. But then, we have difficulty in getting a
complete understanding of the Earth under our feet, too.

Earl Ubell does point out: “Certainly none of our astro¬
nauts dug a hole 25 miles deep to determine the chemistry
down there, but nature provided the shovel in the form of
incoming meteorites that blasted very deep holes, and
brought up the underlying rocks. Each of the Apollo land¬
ings, particularly Apollo 15, was designed to set down in
areas where the dug-up rocks would have landed.”

So we know a little more than our few trips’ worth of
rocks and data might indicate. Scientists, in fact, have
learned enough about our neighbor to come to this con¬
clusion, expressed by Dr. Don Anderson, professor of geo¬
physics and director of the seismological laboratory at Cal
Tech: “The Moon’s composition is not all what it should
be had the Moon been formed in its present orbit around
the Earth.” (Physics Today, March 1974.)

In general scientists like Anderson are puzzled not only
by the differing elemental make-up of the Moon, but also
over the question of why the Moon is so strangely chem¬
ically zoned, with its surface enriched in the refractory
elements and its interior seemingly devoid of iron, the iron
content seemingly plentiful in the maria and in one layer
beneath the surface.

The abundance of the refractory elements like titanium
in the surface areas is so pronounced that several geo¬
chemists proposed that refractory compounds were brought
to the Moon’s surface in great quantity in some unknown
way. They don’t know how, but that it was done cannot be
questioned. These rich materials that are usually concen-

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trated in the interior of a world are now on the outside.

In fact, the Moon is so strange in this respect that Dr.
Anderson proposes that “the Moon was made inside out.”
(Physics Today , March 1974.)

We ask: Isn’t what NASA scientists like Anderson con¬
cluded exactly what would be expected if the Soviet theory
of a hollowed-out “inside-out” world were correct? We
suggest that if we accept this Soviet spaceship theory of
a hollowed-out planetoid, then the internal lunar materials
—the insides, as it were—would have necessarily been
brought to the surface during the process of hollowing it
out, so that the Moon would naturally appear to have been
made “inside out.”

Furthermore, the fact that Luna is deficient in iron ex¬
cept for that strange layer under its outer crust and the
iron-rich, titanium-rich maria again is understandable in
light of the Soviet theory. For alien beings, the Soviet
spaceship scientists maintain, used these materials in the
formation of the spaceship’s inner hull—that strange inner
layer—and in flooding the Moon’s outer crust, which they
claim is really part of the outer patchwork shell.

The Moon, in short, appears to be an inside-out world
because it is, in fact, a hollowed-out spaceship. This is just
another piece of the puzzle that indicates that the planetoid
circling us is nothing but a huge spacecraft.

MYSTERY #4: THE MYSTERY OF
LUNAR RADIOACTIVITY

The upper eight miles of the Moon are radioactive
with uranium, thorium and potassium . . . enough to
produce a heart-breaking conundrum . . . How in
the world did the radioactivity get to the top?

—Earl Ubell, u The Moon Is More of a Mysteiy Than
Ever” The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 1972

Before man went to the Moon most Earth scientists
thought that our satellite was formed cool, and it was
believed by most scientists that it contained lesser amounts
of radioactive substances than our Earth, its supposed sister
planet.

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However, even here there is a puzzler. For this is not
the case at all. Ever since November 1971, when a ther¬
mometer placed by Apollo 15 astronauts turned up star¬
tlingly high temperatures scientists have been befuddled
by the unusual heat problem. Extremely high readings
here indicated that the temperature flow near the Apen-
nine Mountains was very hot indeed. In fact, one sci¬
entist confessed: “When we saw that we said, ‘My God,
this place is about to melt! The core must be very hot.’ ”

This, it should be noted, merely indicated to scientists
a high amount of radioactivity in this one area, and not
necessarily a hot core or a hot Moon. Other measurements
and data have since shown that the Moon’s core is rela¬
tively cool.

Yet radioactive elements have been found to exist in the
surface of the Moon in surprisingly great amounts. The
amount of radioactive materials already measured in lunar
samples is, as one NASA scientist put it, “embarrassingly
high.”

Even the early Apollo samples, such as those taken by
Armstrong and Aldrin, revealed material containing ura¬
nium four times higher than in typical Earth rocks and
fifteen times higher than in meteorites.* The bulk of ma¬
terial inside the Moon could not be this rich in radioactive
uranium, for then the interior would be much hotter than
is evident from the Moon’s temperature.

In fact, if the Apollo 15 samples were representative of
the Moon, enough heat would have been generated to melt
the entire Moon. Similar data from the Apollo 17 site
shows that it appears to be high in radioactivity also. It
would seem to mean, then, that the Moon has far greater
abundance of radioactive elements than our Earth. Why,
scientists can only conjecture.

Many conclude that most of the Moon’s radioactive ele¬
ments must be concentrated in the upper regions. Other¬
wise it would be completely molten. In fact, scientists now
estimate that the upper 8 miles of the Moon are radio¬
active with uranium, thorium, and potassium.

As Earl Ubell notes, “not so radioactive that it is dan-

* Rock samples collected from Sea of Storms has twenty times more
uranium, thorium, and potassium than other lunar samples.

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gerous to astronauts who trod the surface but enough to
produce a head-breaking conundrum. How in the world
did the radioactivity get to the top?”

Theories abound. Just to mention one: “In the earliest
melting of the Moon the radioactive elements were carried
upward with the slag. Need I add the idea has its fervent
detractors?” writes Ubell.

This appears to be another solution to this mystery. In
light of the Soviet spaceship theory there is an understand¬
able answer to the conundrum, which, need I add, also
will have its army of detractors.

If alien beings used intense amounts of radioactive ele¬
ments to melt and hollow out interior portions of their
Spaceship Moon, with the advanced technology obviously
at their disposal they could have melted and poured out the
interior onto the surface, using the proper mix of radio¬
active substances to generate sufficient heat to do this.
This could thus account for the existence of such high
amounts of radioactive elements found in the upper regions
of the Moon.

Many lunar experts do believe that heat generated by
radioactive substances (of course, in a natural way) melted
much of the Moon’s surface. However, another problem
surfaces with the natural explanation, as many scientists
have pointed out. Many top Moon scientists insist that
melting of rocks through radioactivity is a slow process
and hardly could be responsible for the quick , massive
melting that obviously took place. This indicates it was not
a natural process.

But, as we have observed, artificial methods of an ad¬
vanced technology could have used concentrated amounts
of radioactive elements to produce this rapid melting that
obviously was there .

Maybe this is why so many radioactive substances and
radioactive “hot spots” have been found on the Moon’s
surface, despite the fact that we have made only six trips
to this strange world circling Earth.

Of course, this might be all sheer conjecture. But it is
interesting to note that it does solve the problem and the
puzzler as to how the radioactive elements did get to the
top, and also makes understandable how radioactive sub-

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stances could cause a quick, rapid melting. It also makes
clear why these elements exist in such great amounts on
the Moon.

The two Soviet spaceship theorists point out that they
are convinced that the huge flat lunar plains of solidified
lava were artificially produced by intense amounts of
melted rock and mineral elements from the interior. It is
interesting and important to note that according to Science
News (April 7, 1973), “where elevation is high [highlands]
the amount of radioactive material is low, where elevation
is low, the amount of radioactive material is high. . . .
This suggests to some that the radioactive rich basalts were
a lava flow early in the Moon’s history that filled in the
lower regions of the Moon.”

This suggests to us that it was used to cause such flows.
Another lunar mystery that again proves understandable
only in light of the Soviet spaceship theory!

MYSTERY #5; THE MYSTERY OF WATER

ON A DRY , DRY WORLD

* *

.. . a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert.

—Gerald Wasserburg

The first few trips to our Moon indicated to scientists
that the Moon was a dry, dry world. Apollo 11, 12, and
14 had failed to find even the slightest trace of water on
the surface of our neighbor. Also, the attenuated seismic
responses led many scientists to claim that the Moon just
had to be completely dry. NASA Assistant Director of
Lunar Science Dr. Richard Allenby concluded: “There is
no evidence in the rocks or geochemistry that water exists.”
In fact, the Moon was so dry that it prompted one scientist
to make the observation that the Moon was a million times
as dry as our Gobi Desert.

Then came Apollo 15 and the scientific world was
rocked back on its heels again. A cloud of water vapor
covering more than 100 square miles was discovered on
the surface of the Moon.

Earl Ubell in his article “The Moon Is More of a Mys-

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tery Than Ever” says: “The Moon is dry, drier than the
most dry of terrestrial deserts, and it doesn’t seem to have
ever had water in substantial amounts either on top or
deep down. . . . Scientists were feeling very confident about
the dryness when suddenly one of the instruments left on
the Moon by the Apollo 15 broadcast back to earth on
March 7, 1971, a signal that indicated a wind of water had
swept across the Moon.”

Where could a cloud of water vapor 100 square miles
have come from? The two Rice University physicists who
made the discovery. Dr. John Freeman, Jr., and Dr. H. Ken
Hills, pored over the data and claimed that the water must
have come from deep down inside the Moon.

Red-faced NASA scientists, however, first tried to pass
off this cloud of water as coming from two water tanks
of an Apollo descent stage left on the Moon. These two
tiny tanks—60 to 100 pounds of water—NASA scientists
tried to make the world believe created the 100-square-mile
cloud!

The Rice University SIDE (Siiperthermal /on Detectors)
team noted that this could not be the case since the two
detectors were located some 180 kilometers apart, yet the
vapor was detected with the same flux at both sites. More¬
over, they were pointed outward in the opposite directions,
yet both had strong readings. Hence, concluded SIDE re¬
searchers, the water came from inside the Moonl

A few stubborn NASA scientists speculated that this
100-square-mile water vapor cloud might have come from
the astronauts’ urine which had been dumped into the lunar
skies. This too was rejected by the SIDE scientists.

Although our first few astronaut teams on the Moon
failed to bring back a shred of evidence that indicated the
Moon had any water at all, our Apollo 16 astronauts did
find rocks that contained rusted iron, and this indicated
the presence of water somewhere on the Moon. For to have
rust one must have oxygen and free hydrogen—this proves
that there must be water on the Moon.

Scientists now admit that water exists there because evi¬
dence of hydrous material found on the Moon was con¬
firmed by the University of Cambridge lunar science team.
And B. J. Skinner of Yale University concluded: “The

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evidence seems good that we have the first hydrous mineral
found on the Moon.” ( Science News , January 29, 1972.)

The water vapor problem may not seem too big a mys¬
tery from the standpoint of us water-world inhabitants. But
its discovery absolutely astonished lunar experts. As the
Science News states (October 23, 1971): “The presence
or absence of water on the Moon is central to theories of
lunar origin and development.”

The impact of the water discovery was momentous. As
lunar expert Dr. Farouk El Baz, then a leading NASA
geologist, noted: “If water vapor is coming from the
moon’s interior this is serious. It means that there is a dras¬
tic distinction between the different phases in the lunar
interior—that the interior is quite different from what we
have seen on the surface.” ( Science News , October 23,
1971.)

How this can be perplexes scientists. But according to
the Soviet hollow-Moon theory, our satellite has huge
internal areas filled with gases for some kind of atmosphere
to sustain life. Could these gases, which might include
water vapor, be escaping through cracks and crevasses
from the lunar interior out onto the surface of the Moon?
The SIDE team scientists did conclude from their careful
study that indeed the water vapor actually came from the
Moon’s deep interior. It would seem then that the water
vapor clouds could have come from our hollow Spaceship
Moon. In fact, there appears to be no other solution to the
sudden discovery of this great cloud of water on this dry,
dry world.

MYSTERY #6: THE MYSTERY OF THE
MOON'S STRANGE MAGNETISM

We don't know what the magnetic story is but we do
know that there are some very strange magnetic prop¬
erties in these rocks which were not expected .

— Dr. Paul Gast

On the first Soviet and American flights to the Moon,
tests indicated that it had little or no magnetic field. Then

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lunar rocks were discovered that were strongly magnetized.
These rocks contained in effect “fossil magnetic fields”
frozen into them, indicating that the Moon either once
possessed or at least went through a global magnetic field
of considerable strength.

This was a surprise to scientists, for the Moon was with¬
out a magnetic field—and it was assumed it had been
without such a field in all its long existence. Then the dis¬
covery of the magnetized rocks.

The late great lunar expert Dr. Paul Gast, a geophysicist
at Columbia University, observed: “We don’t know what
the magnetic story is, but we do know that there are some
very strange magnetic properties in these rocks which are
not expected.” (Lunar Rock Conference, Smithsonian In¬
stitution, Washington, D.C., 1969.)

If, as the evidence indicates, the Moon did actually pos¬
sess a strong magnetic field, this presents a bitter conun¬
drum. For then it must have had a big iron core. But
equally valid data and evidence show that a large hot core
could never have existed inside the Moon.

What about the possibility that the Moon came close
enough to Earth’s magnetic fields to cause the Moon rocks
to be magnetized?

As Ubell puts it: “If the moon were once near the earth
so that the earth’s magnetic field could magnetize moon
rocks, the two bodies would have been so close that the
moon would break up under the gravitational pull of the
earth. And so on. Any ideas?”

Scientists seem to be caught here on the horns of a
dilemma. Evidence that the Moon had or at one time
entered a fairly strong magnetic field is certain. The origin
of such a field is a mystery to scientists, for the Moon does
not have a magnetic field now and scientists find it hard
to believe it ever could have had one.

Then where did the magnetic field come from that left
its telltale imprint on these rocks? Where did it go if it was
the Moon’s? Says Richard Lewis, “scientists calculated
the magnetic field had to be as strong as 36 gamma field
which is powerful.”

Either that or the Moon had to pass through “extremely
powerful solar magnetic or electric fields, which no longer
exist.” That presents the problem of why the fragile Moon

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did not break into bits, if it got that close to a body, such
as Earth, emanating such a field. For to acquire the mag¬
netism, it would have had to come that close. (The Voyages
of A polio .)

Here is where the Soviet spaceship theory again fits in so
beautifully, resolving all these difficulties. With its strong
internal hull, there would be no problems of being torn
apart, even if the Moon did come close to another cosmic
body. Such a celestial tug of war might cause the Moon to
be lopsided (which it in fact is!), but its strong internal
hull or shell would keep it intact. And, incidentally, the
bulge on the far side of the Moon also indicates that the
Moon does have tremendous internal strength and may
have been in such a celestial tug of war at one time.

Did this happen when the Moon came near Earth? No
one knows for sure. However, considering the age of Space¬
ship Moon, the opportunities for this to happen were
many.

NASA scientist Paul Gast confessed before his, death:
“One of the exciting things about this paradox or enigma
[of magnetism] is [that] perhaps behind all of this is an
explanation that none of us are Ithinking about today. Even¬
tually some smart person will sit down and have a bright
idea which explains it all.*’ ( Science News, May 27, 1972.)

We are convinced that the Soviet scientists with their
Spaceship Moon is the answer! For the artificial moon
theory dissolves all these difficulties and, in fact, makes a
lunar magnetic field not only plausible but likely.

MYSTERY #7; OUR HOT-COLD MOON—THE
MASS OF CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE

The puzzler here is that a cool moon contradicts other
data that lead science to conclude that the Moon once
had a molten core and a magnetic field .

—Earl Uhelly “The Moon Is More of a Mystery Than
Ever,” The New York Times Magazine, April 16,1972

One of the greatest controversies revolving around the
Moon before man went up to examine this strange world
for himself was the question of whether the Moon was a

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hot or a cold body. A major question that seemed to grip
lunar experts before Apollo was: Is the Moon, like Earth,
a “living,” internally hot body? Or is it, as Schopenhauer
described it more than a century ago, “a frozen moon,”
cold and dead throughout?

The majority of scientists who had given this Moon
matter any attention had come to look upon the Moon as
a dead world, much as did the science-fiction writer H. G.
Wells, who viewed it as a place of pockmarked craters,
dead volcanoes, and lava wildernesses.

However, there were scientists like American astrono¬
mer Ralph Baldwin, whose intensive studies indicated to
him that the Moon is a live hot ball. When Baldwin first
undertook his pioneering studies, one of his professors said
to him: “Why are you wasting your time on the Moon?
It is dead and gone!”

But Baldwin’s persistence convinced him and a large
group of lunar scientists studying the Moon that this
mysterious orb was in fact hot inside—or at least was at
one time.

Nevertheless, most lunar experts remained skeptical cold-
Mooners, despite the hundreds of transient lunar events,
such as glows and lights seen on the Moon’s surface, which
other scientists tried to pass off as “volcanic activity.” Some
lunar experts, in fact, even openly scoffed at the idea that
the Moon was ever hot enough to melt rock.

However, enough scientists were around who thought the
Moon was still hot enough to possibly have active vol¬
canoes so that some astronauts (Apollo 11) were even
shown erupting volcanoes in Hawaii before they made
their trip to Luna. Why? Because some scientists thought
our astronauts might run into a few on the Moon!

On the other hand, a few scientists, like Dr. Harold
Urey, doubted that there ever was any volcanic activity on
our neighboring satellite. Urey claimed he could “show
mathematically that the Moon was too small a body to have
generated the kind of heat that would have resulted in lava
flows covering entire maria.” Observed Urey: “No geologist
has yet been able to show me how you can get lava flows
out of the Moon.” (Henry Cooper’s Moon Rocks.)

When his scientific opponents claimed that radioactive
materials in rocks could have heated up the Moon enough

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to do this, Urey pointed out that this presents then another
unanswerable problem. For if there had been sufficient
radioactive-gene rated heat to melt rocks inside the Moon
and start lava flows, then the Moon’s interior should be
hot today, as is Earth’s. However, it is not.

Why should this be true? Astrophysicists claim that once
a body the size of the Moon had heated up enough to
melt its interior, it could not have cooled down within the
time the Moon is supposed to have existed, since this 2000-
mile-thick rock world is a pretty good “thermos ball,”
well insulated to keep its heat from dissipating. Thus it is
difficult to explain its relatively cold condition today.

Unquestionably, however, there is evidence that our
Moon was once very hot. It is everywhere on the Moon—
especially in the maria, in its apparent huge volcanic lava
flows. Even the first close-up American photos of the Moon
showed to Baldwin and other scientists that the Moon was
indeed a hot body, at least at one time. As Baldwin himself
put it: “Surveyor [an early manned Moon probe] killed off
the possibility of a cold moon!”

Later Apollo-obtained evidence of a once-hot moon was
compelling. NASA scientist Dr. Gerald Wasserburg, pointed
this out when he said “once [the Moon] got itself all hot
and bothered and melted perhaps down to a depth of 100
kilometers.” However, he added that scientists are unable
to explain how it got that hot, when it did, and how it
cooled off. {New York Times, January 12, 1971.)

But unquestionably, as Apollo results began to flow back
to Earth, cold Mooners went into a decline. But the hot-
Mooners were in trouble too.

As Earl Ubell noted in “The Moon Is More of a Mys¬
tery Than Ever”: “The cold-mooners are in trouble because
they have no way to heat up the Moon once the first melt¬
ing, 4.6 billion years ago, had cooled down. [It was believed
this was the beginning of the Moon as a hot ball.] The only
way they can supply the heat for the subsequent melts is to
place the radioactivity within the moon in just the right way
so that it creates the melts at the right time. This, in turn,
as Dr. Paul Gast of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory sug¬
gests, means that the moon was formed in different chem¬
ical layers instead of as a uniform mass.”

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But the hot-Mooners are in a dilemma trying to explain
the evidence that shows the Moon is relatively cold today,
since they have no theory to explain the mechanics that
shut down this heating process.

Furthermore, the hot-Mooners are having difficulty try¬
ing to explain the other evidence that shows that the Moon
is extremely rigid and cold on the inside—as, for example,
the peculiar long virbrations that seismometers record after
various impactings show, as does the existence of the
strange bulge.

Yet another mystery is the high content of titanium
found in rocks taken from the Sea of Tranquility—three
times the amount found on Earth, in some instances more
than ten times the amount!

The problem here is that scientists—even hot-Mooners
—find it difficult to believe that the Moon was ever hot
enough to have produced the melted rock that formed the
titanium-rich maria. Even our own hot planet Earth is not
that hot! Not a single scientist, not even the hot-Mooners
has ever offered an adequate answer to this perplexing
dilemma.

Today lunar experts are still strongly debating whether
the Moon is hot or cold. Some data support the fact that
it is hot; other evidence that scientists of the cold school
can marshal tends to indicate that our satellite must be
cold. Thus, the results of the various Apollo missions seem
to contradict each other. One fact after another seems to
cancel previously established facts and findings. No wonder
today scientists find themselves in a confused quandary. No
wonder Ubell states that “the moon is more of a mystery
than ever.”

We have already seen so many areas where this is true.
We have seen hot-Mooners squirming over evidence that
shows the Moon to be internally rigid which is indicated by
its nonspherical shape and lopsided bulge. We have seen
that the internal existence of mascons indicates that it is
cold and rigid inside. And we have already noted that the
peculiar vibrations that are transmitted throughout the in¬
terior over great distances and for long durations definitely
indicate that it is rigid and cold in the interior.

On the other hand, cold-Mooners are having difficulty

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explaining away the existence of once-strong magnetic
fields, which many scientists claim required a molten-hot
lunar core to create. Which, by the way, also leaves the
hot-Mooners with the dilemma of getting the temperature
inside down to where it is today—relatively cold.

As Dr. Paul Gast, chief planetary and Earth sciences
specialist at NASA, who was a cold-Mooner asserted: “If it
[the Moon] was at one time completely molten or near the
melting point, then it is rather difficult to get it today, deep
in the interior, down to the temperatures that [now] exist.”
Some would say that is impossible.

As Dr. Charles Sonnett, deputy director of NASA’s Ames
Research Center in Mountain View, California, concludes:
“A core that is cool now almost precludes the Moon ever
having a hot core, as the cooling mechanism is impossible
to explain.” (Science News , January 23, 1971.)

The core is relatively cool—even hot-Mooners now ad¬
mit that. How then to resolve these contradictions and di¬
lemmas?

Dr. Nowell Hinns of Bell Communications Inc. calls Dr.
Sonnett’s findings spectacular. The puzzler here is that a
cool Moon contradicts other data that lead other, equally
competent scientists to conclude that the Moon once had a
molten core, once had a strong magnetic field, once was
definitely hot. Where do we go from here?

To the Soviet theory! For it alone can make the con¬
tradictions and paradoxes understandable. It dissolves the
impossibilities of these contradictions. If, as Soviet scientists
Vasin and Shcherbakov maintain, some technology such as
properly developed and placed radioactivity could make
the Moon extremely hot and send oceans of lava to its sur¬
face, hollowing out its interior would have been easy. Then
we would have a way of heating up the Moon to a tempera¬
ture hot enough to melt elements like titanium; then we
would have an explanation for all the evidence of volcanic
melting on the surface of an essentially cold moon. Nor
would a large hot core be necessary for this. In fact, some
scientists believe that the tiny core the Moon might have
once had was melted and poured out onto the surface, in
part forming the maria which we now se.e as huge circular
dark seas.

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This would explain Urey’s contradictory position of the
impossibility of a cold Moon on the one hand and on the
other, the irrefutable evidence of a once-hot Moon that
Baldwin’s evidence and the Apollo evidence indicate.

For as Ubell pointed out: “The only way they [the cold-
Mooners] can supply the heat for the subsequent melts
[after the first initial melt] is to place the radioactivity with¬
in the Moon in just the right way so that it creates the
melts at the right time.”

THE HEATS ON!

One difficulty that we have wrestled with is the heat of
the deep interior that some scientists say exists. Although
lunar experts claim for the most part that our Moon is in¬
ternally a “relatively cool” body, some claim that at its
core (which, amazingly, much evidence indicates does not
exist!) it is still as hot as 1000 degrees. That is hot enough
to melt lead. (Admittedly, our Earth is much hotter—
somewhere between 3600 and 5000 degrees.)

Surely here is proof positive that the Moon could not be
a spaceship?

Not necessarily, for, as we shall see, not only are sci¬
entists not sure it is hot but insist there is every evidence
that it is, in fact, a cold body. Secondly, remember that
if the Moon does have artificial construction on the inside
and is a spaceship, all kinds of things are possible, from
nuclear furnaces to a huge artificial sun that any such
inside-out spaceship must have to lighten its dark in¬
terior.

But even aside from this, scientists are divided, some
insisting that the Moon could not be anything but a cold
body internally.

How did those scientists who are convinced that it is
hot arrive at this temperature? How did they measure the
temperature inside this chunk of rock 2100 miles thick
and over 235,000 miles away from our planet?

Earl Ubell gives us a clear explanation in his article “The
Moon Is More of a Mystery Than Ever,” for he, too, tackles
this problem of whether the Moon is a hot or a cold world.

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He points out that every schoolboy (or schoolgirl, for that
matter) knows from his grade-school science classes that a
magnet placed under a piece of paper sprinkled with iron
filings will arrange the iron particles into a pattern
which shows the strength and direction of the magnetic
field generated by the magnet When you place another
piece of iron near the magnet, that field will distort and the
iron filings will change position and rearrange themselves.
Actually, any metal or other material will distort the field
to some extent , and by measuring the distortion scientists
can determine the magnetic and electric properties of the
disturbing body.

We have measured the magnetic fields around Earth and
the Moon. Our Sun generates a strong magnetic field which
envelops both our planet and our neighbor the Moon. Our
lunar satellite Explorer 35 measured that magnetism. Our
Apollo 12 astronauts also placed a device on the Moon
which measured the Moon-made distortions in this magnetic
field, and physicists were therefore able to obtain a good
idea of the magnetic properties of the Moon.

What has this to do with the-inside temperature of the
Moon? Scientists have known that the electrical properties
of a body vary in relation to its temperature. From these
properties, they can get a good indication of the tempera¬
ture of that body. In fact, scientists have actually worked
out mathematical formulas based on this relationship. Ex¬
perts using these formulas have determined that the max¬
imum internal temperatures of the Moon are between 1000
and 1800° F. This is the maximum . It could be much
cooler, and many scientists insist it must be.

However, as we have just noted, any metal or other
similar material will distort the field. If this is true, then we
can see we will have problems with the accuracy of heat
measurements of our Moon, since it is loaded with metals,
including a complete metallic shell on the inside! For, as
our Soviet scientists, theorize, this Spaceship Moon has an
inner hull created by alien beings to protect themselves in
their cosmic journey through the universe. We have seen
there is strong evidence today that this iron does exist, in
addition to many other concentrations of metal; there is the
very real possibility of artificial construction—like the

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huge girderlike blocks of metal 1000 kilometers long that
may exist inside our Moon! Thus, clearly the results of
any temperature studies would be highly inaccurate, to say
the least.

In addition, the temperature readings have been taken
in only a few spots on the Moon. Our first attempt to place
heat-temperature measuring equipment ended in failure
when on the Apollo 15 expedition David Scott unfortu¬
nately stumbled, ripping out the wires of this sensitive heat
temperature equipment.

However, Scott and his partner James Irwin did succeed
(after many tries) in drilling a hole in the lunar surface
and placing in it a thermometer.

In November 1971, the thermometer readings indicated
that the heat flow in that area (near the lunar Apennine
Mountains) was two thirds the Earth’s average ! For an orb
as small as the Moon, that is very hot! As one scientist
exclaimed: “When we saw that we said, *My God, this place
is about to melt! The core must be very hot.’ ”

However, this, as the scientists themselves well knew,
was an isolated reading. And what evidence do scientists
have today for determining the Moon’s internal heat? A
few isolated readings. We have noted the large number of
radioactive hot spots already found on or near the surface
of this strange world. Considering this, it is doubtful that
these few readings are very accurate. NASA clearly admits
that many hot spots have been found on the Moon (just
as on Earth) where there is a much higher heat flow than
the average. (Yellowstone National Park is a good example
for Earth.) So any estimate of the inside temperature of
Luna based on this is hazardously uncertain.

Dr. Michael Yates of Bell Comm Inc. claims: “The mag¬
netism results from Apollo 12 seem to be supplanting the
seismic results in importance since the magnetism relates
to the Moon as a whole.” (Science News, January 23,
1971.)

Although he believes that findings do show that tempera¬
tures increase to a depth of about 200 kilometers, he also
is convinced that they decrease again. From this he con¬
cludes that the Moon is a relatively cool body, certainly
well below the melting point of most solids.

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We have also seen the seismic studies show the Moon
vibrating throughout like a huge bell, and that this indi¬
cates by itself that the Moon interiorly is cold and rigid.
Similarly, deep seismic disturbances show the Moon to be
rigid and cold. The highly regarded Science magazine notes:
“Possible focal depths as great as 900 km. may favor the
thermal stress hypothesis, but there is considerable evidence
that melting temperatures may not be reached at any depth
in the moon. Relatively low internal temperatures are indi¬
cated by the existence of mascons and by the non-equilib¬
rium figure of the moon which imply considerable internal
strength.” (Emphasis added.)

There is also much other evidence that our Moon is in¬
ternally not hot but a cold orb. Many studies have led to
this conclusion. Here are a few:

English scientist C. A. Cross published his study “The
Thermal History of the Moon” in the authoritative inter¬
national lunar journal The Moon . He says . . for Various
reasons the outward flow of heat must be smaller than is
presently supposed.” {The Moon, An International Journal
of Lunar Studies , Vol. 4, 1972.)

Dr. Marcus Langseth of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty
Geological Institute also warns that for various reasons
“we cannot extrapolate the temperature increases with
depth.” Dr. Langseth also claims that those few high heat
flow measurements that have been taken “could be a local
anomaly.” {The Moon , Vol. 6, 1973.)

We have seen how much intense radioactivity permeates
the upper 8 miles of the Moon, with hot spots everywhere.
This too could be affecting the evidence for a hot Moon.

NASA scientists Dr. D. L. Anderson and T. C. Hanks
point out in their article “Is the Moon Hot or Cold?” that
there are many problems with any theory of a hot moon,
among these the non-spherieal shape of the Moon, the
mascons, the remarkable seismic responses and conduc¬
tivity evidence! All suggest the lunar interior is “cold and,
by implication has always been cold.” {Science , Vol. 178,
1972.)

Nobel prize winner Dr. Harold Urey stated bluntly:
“The geologists are going to be in for an-awful jolt when
they find the Moon isn’t volcanic in the way the Earth is.

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I keep telling these geologists to let their imaginations go!”
(Henry Cooper’s Moon Rocks.)

Little did Dr. Urey realize the full impact of his pre¬
diction. Henry Cooper in his fine book Moon Rocks com¬
menting on Urey’s remarks says: “A hot moon would have
to have had a hot core.” Did it? In the orthodox view, yes.
The problem with this is that equally valid data indicate
that the Moon could never have had a hot core—at least
not naturally.

And this is the key word—■ naturally . How can you have
a hot core when evidence indicates that the Moon could
never have had a hot core naturally? But Vasin and Shcher¬
bakov maintain that it could have been done artificially
through advanced alien technology’s reshaping of this nat¬
ural world into an artificially created spaceship.

So maybe Urey’s old mathematical proof is not wrong
after all—maybe the Moon is too small a body to have
generated the kind of heat that would have resulted in lava
flows covering entire maria. Maybe the Moon was heated
up artificially with advanced technological means by intelli¬
gent beings to accomplish what appears impossible to Earth
scientists. This, as we have seen, undoubtedly involved large
amount of radioactive elements placed in proper fashion
within the Moon.

Technologically advanced aliens could have “heated”
the Moon, sending seas of lava to the exterior surface
initially as they hollowed out inner portions and later on
at various times to reinforce certain weakened outer areas.
Thus, since the Moon had no hot internal core, there exists
no problem of trying to figure out how it cooled.

This spaceship theory would allow the Moon to preserve
its lopsidedness or aspherical shape as well as the mascons.
It would also explain why the Moon gives every evidence
of being cold and rigid in addition to being hollow inter¬
nally. Yet with this artificial process it still could have hot
spots in its interior and in its outer regions, which seem¬
ingly are merely intense concentrations of the radioactivity
used by the aliens to refashion this natural asteroid into a
spaceship.

This theory thus explains all the seeming mysteries,
which in fact melt away in the heat of the facts of this

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“artificial” hypothesis. Suddenly everything becomes clear
in the light of the Soviet Spaceship Moon.

. .. although the Moon has been visited several times ,
no answer has been obtained [as to its origin]. The
information we have received offers more puzzles
than answers .

—Isaac Asimov

THIRTEEN ___

THE ALL-COMPREHENSIVE SPACESHIP
MOON THEORY!

Ever since the Apollo missions started bringing a new
world of information to Earth our scientists have used this
new-found lunar knowledge to kill off many of the most
widely accepted theories of the origin and make-up of the
Moon. Scientists began dispatching rival theories left and
right because they did not completely fit the lunar evidence
as a whole. At the same time scrambling scientists are
creating new hypotheses to take the place of old, worn-out
ones. These new theories are being fitted Procrustean-like
to the strange discoveries made in exploring this strange
world.

“A new Moon rose,” Richard Lewis told us at the Fifth
Lunar Conference in 1974. “It was a planet in its own
right . . . such a planet had to be captured to become the
satellite of the Earth.” ( The Voyages of Apollo .)

This is the latest theory, now being advanced cautiously
to try to explain some of the enigmas of the old Moon now
that most of the other theories are dead or dying. And
old scientific theories, believe me, die a very slow death.

Interestingly, the theory that is now gaining most ad¬
herents is one that was never seriously considered by the
vast majority of scientists before Apollo. Most experts in
the field of celestial mechanics rejected this possibility. As
Walter Sullivan, a leading science writer of our time, says:

. . . specialists in the movements of celestial bodies
under the gravitational influence of one another—the
science of celestial mechanics—find it hard to explain

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how the moon, if it came from afar and was captured
by the earth’s gravity, achieved so well behaved and
circular an orbit.

Even with all their fancy computers, their fine
spacecraft, guidance and velocity control, specialists in
space flight find it virtually impossible to launch a
vehicle from earth so that, without further nudging, it
goes into orbit around another body such as the moon.
As in all the Apollo missions including this one, a
rocket engine must be fired to inject the spacecraft
into orbit as it flies past the moon.

Obviously the moon had no such rocket, so how
did it get into orbit around the earth? (New York
Times , November 9, 1969.)

A good question, and one that only the spaceship theory
of the Moon’s origin resolves with any intelligence. The
science of celestial mechanics and its laws have not
changed. The odds of a natural capture of our Moon, con¬
sidering its nearly circular orbit, are virtually nil. It is
virtually impossible.

Another insoluble problem is that in order for an orb
the size of the Moon to be captured by Earth it would have
had to come within the Roche limit—that is, within that
limit which would cause it to be pulled apart and break up
under the tremendous effect of the great gravitational pull
of our much larger, denser Earth. Only a Spaceship Moon
with a thick metallic hull could have withstood such a
celestial tug of war and survived intact. Even at that, the
smaller Moon would have been left with a huge bulge on
one side, at the very least. Interesting, isn’t it, that our
Moon has such a bulge—on the far side, which has never
faced Earth.

A NEW STRANGE MIRACULOUS MOON

At the Fifth Lunar Conference scientists like John Wood
and Joseph Smith of the University of Chicago and H. E.
Miller of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory main¬
tained that the Moon did break up as it passed our planet
on its way to being captured. Then, according to their

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theory, the Moon “reassembled itself in earth orbit.” Amaz¬
ing. They do not exactly spell out how this miracle took
place, except to say by accretion, an old standby of as¬
tronomers.

Incidentally, these theorists use this “capture-breakup-
reassembly” theory to help explain how the Moon lost its
iron, the element that, as we have seen, is lacking in the
outer portions of the Moon, except of course in the maria,
where it is strangely concentrated. They claim that the
heavier iron pieces of “the disrupted invader were dis¬
persed in distant earth orbits.” The remaining pieces, rang¬
ing in size from tiny pebbles to huge meteor-size boulders
many miles across, were drawn to the Moon by its gravity
and crashed into the ever-enlarging Moon, until it eventu¬
ally generated enough heat to turn the lunar surface into
a sea of molten lava. This rain of rocks would have to have
happened very, very rapidly, which scientists are at a loss
to explain. These theorists assume also that the central core
of the Moon did exist, because they start with that and use
it to build up to a large Moon.

This rain of rocks ended some 3.9 billion years ago, leav¬
ing the Moon covered with craters and maria. Radioactive
elements like uranium and thorium gradually built up, melt¬
ing once solid interior rock, finally breaking through the
hard outer crust in great spasms of volcanic activity, filling
the Moon’s low lying basin with lava, creating the Moon’s
maria.

This is hard to accept, because most scientists point out
that radioactivity would not melt enough rocks quickly
enough to send forth oceans of lava larger than entire
countries of Earth. Furthermore, there is much evidence,
as we have noted, against the celestial-bombardment-
formation theory of these strange circular seas of metallic
lava.

Moreover, if the Moon was indeed formed from huge
chunks of matter in orbit around Earth, where did the
debris come from? Scientists who espouse this wild theory
have an ingenious answer to this problem. Geochemist
John Wood of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggested that thousands of
chunks of this rock matter were shooting through this
corner of space, “trapped near the earth and broken up

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by gravitational forces, but many of their heavier com¬
ponents, notably iron, were thrown back into space. That
would explain the paucity of such material in moon rocks.’*
( Science , 1973, Vol. 103. Also see Time , April 8, 1974.)

Convenient, convenient. Why would the heavier com¬
ponents, notably the iron, be thrown back into space when
by the laws of gravity they should have been attracted to
the surface of the Moon even more quickly and surely than
lighter chunks?

And how to explain by this theory why Earth, which is
larger to begin with and a close companion now, did not
attract these large chunks of lunar debris? Certainly, our
planet in no way shows signs of going through any kind of
intense bombardment; the Moon does.

No, this theory appears to us to be quite contrived. It
seems more unlikely an hypothesis than the far-out Soviet
theory of an intelligently created spaceship world steered
into orbit around Earth. More importantly, this “new
Moon” still leaves us with many unsolved problems—with
the mysteries of the mascons, the contradictory cold-hot
evidence, the mystery of how the Moon could ring like a
huge gong for over four hours, the mystery of identical
signal tracking from inside the Moon, and myriads more!

As far as we can see the best that can be said for it is
that it shows how lunar scientists are now leaning toward
the probability that the Moon was born far from our planet
and came from the outer cosmos. The chemical differences
alone are leading some scientists in this direction. For if
Earth and the Moon were created out of the same cosmic
cloud, why do they differ so much in composition? These
differences cause many scientists today to discard the the¬
ory that the Moon came into being at the same time as
Earth. The theory that the Moon was ripped out of Earth
now seems to be completely dead and buried.

The capture theory is now catching on. And that’s good,
because it is a step in the right direction—toward the
Spaceship Moon theory! As Gustaf Arrenhenius and H.
Alfren of the University of California claim: “There is
little doubt that the moon is a captured satellite. But its
capture orbit and tidal evolution are still incomprehensible.”
(The Moon , An International Journal of Lunar Studies,

Vol. 5.)

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And will remain so until, as we have pointed out, some¬
one can find some way to overcome the problems of celes¬
tial mechanics arguing against natural capture.

There are many other grave problems with the “new”
Moon of Wood and Smith and their colleagues. Just how,
for instance, did this Moon by accretion “reassemble” itself
so that the iron existed in intense amounts only in the
maria and in an inner band or layer just below the Moon’s
rock surface? They do not—in fact, cannot—explain this
conundrum. Obviously, this theory seems to be an unlikely
explanation even compared to the wild Soviet theory which
holds it was extracted by alien intelligence to construct the
inner portions of the spaceship hull and reinforce the outer
weakened areas of the Moon’s shell.

After that miracle of nature flinging the iron out of the
Moon, these scientists of the “new” Moon claim, the major
pieces recombined near the Earth and minor pieces were
picked up later.

Maybe if scientists would take a close scientific look at
the inner Moon they could see where all the iron and metal
went. In fact, scientists, as we have shown, know that a
thick inner layer is rich in iron and refractory alloys. And
we have shown one outstanding lunar expert trying to ex¬
plain the strange 1000-kilometer-long belts of seismic dis¬
turbances by saying that they could be “composed of ma¬
terial such as embedded blocks of iron . .

In our opinion, in no way could iron blocks exist nat¬
urally inside the Moon. Except, naturally, in the unnatural
way of the artificial construction of a spaceship!

Scientists, as you can see, are practically doing lunar
handstands trying to figure out how, as one science re¬
porter put it, “the moon accreted with less iron, more
aluminum and other refractory elements and more uranium
than the earth. ‘It ain’t easy/ quips one geochemist.” (Sci¬
ence News, April 7, 1973.)

Anyone can see this. And in fact, to acceptance of this
entire hard-to-swallow capture-breakup-reassembly we re¬
iterate that geochemist’s quip: “It ain’t easy!”

We would rather stick to the wild, way-out, lunatic-fringe
spaceship theory that fits all the facts. The capture-breakup-
accretion-reassembly theory doesn’t.

As Dr* Donald Wise of the University of Massachusetts,

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a proponent of the fission theory, once said: “It’s always
possible to choose among competing theories if you’re will¬
ing to disregard half the evidence.” (Henry Cooper’s Moon
Rocks.) This strange theory is guilty of just that, as we
have seen.

In fact, scientists have yet to come up with a unitary
theory that does fit all the facts—aside from this un¬
orthodox Soviet theory. We have seen how this amazing
theory dissolves all the mysteries of the Moon. And, poring
over the Apollo evidence, we have yet to find a single prob¬
lem or contradictory piece of evidence that is not under¬
standable in light of this artificial-Moon theory.

THE MYSTERY OF OUR GLASSY MOON

Close-up photos taken by our lunar astronauts show the
Moon’s surface looks as if it were covered with solder. On
close scrutiny this metallic-looking “solder glaze” turns out
to have much more of a glassy effect than a metallic one,
scientists discovered. It appears that the Moon’s hide was
scorched somehow by some intense heat. What caused this
strange glazing phenomenon?

At first some scientists were convinced that the glassy
beads were merely condensed out of surface material
burned by the impact of meteors.

In fact, one science reporter wrote: “The discovery that
some parts of the Moon are ‘paved’ with pieces of glass
supports the view that the Moon has suffered impacts of a
very energetic nature.” (Frank Cousins, The Solar System.)

Did all this glass come from massive meteor imp actings?

“Nope,” says eminent NASA scientist Dr. Eugene Shoe¬
maker. “Zero chance.

“If the surface material vaporized, gas molecules would
have so much energy that they would escape into space
rather than condensing and falling back onto the surface
in such large numbers.” (Science News, August 2, 1969.)

Where did the glass come from, then?

Dr. Thomas Gold, leading astronomer of Cornell and
NASA programs, said that this glass suggested to him that
it came from the scorching of some intense heat, probably
produced by solar flare-ups. Calculations, however, show

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that the Sun would have to increase its luminosity by more
than 100 times its present rate for at least 10 seconds and
probably up to 100 seconds to accomplish this. Such a
phenomenon would have made it a kind of mini-nova.
Most astronomers discount such an intense flare-up by our
Sun because it appears to be such a stable star and be¬
cause there is no evidence on Earth of such a great solar
scorching.

Dr. Gold insists that the evidence indicates clearly that
the flash of intense heat that scorched the Moon’s surface
must have been recent, because otherwise the erosive effect
of the constant cosmic rainstorm pelting the planetoid
would likely have obliterated this lunar evidence. Gold
estimates that this intense glazing could not be older than
100,000 years, and more likely closer to 30,000 years.

Scientists are stumped to explain another Moon mystery.
But in light of Spaceship Moon we do not need a mini-nova
of our Sun to explain it. If this Spaceship Moon traveled
throughout the universe for eons, there would most likely
have been many occasions when it could have occurred. It
undoubtedly zipped close to many another sun, so it would
have had many opportunities to get such a fierce scorching.

Whether this is what happened we cannot say, but cer¬
tainly this problem disappears in view of the travels of our
Spaceship Moon.

OTHER EVIDENCE OF OUR WANDERING MOON

Yet another piece of evidence whose understanding is
important to the entire picture of the Spaceship Moon
puzzle comes to us through our latest Apollo studies.

Dr. Z. Kopal of the University of Manchester, who is
looked upon as one of the world’s leading experts on our
lunar companion, in his definitive work The Moon in the
Post-Apollo Era zeroes in on another problem of the Moon
that many other Moon experts overlook.

This is the conclusion that a study of lunar craters re¬
veals the “fact that evidence for impacts in all directions—
including low-angle or grazing impacts—appears to be dis¬
tributed at random all over the surface of our satellite.**

Kopal’s inquiry into the orbits of the impacting bodies

that formed the craters and the trajectories that they must
have followed leads him to the unalterable conclusion that
these celestial particles or pieces which hit to form our
Moon’s craters were not in heliocentric orbits .

As Kopal stresses: “The stony record of the lunar face”
indicates that “the impinging particles could not have re¬
volved in heliocentric orbits.” He arrived at this hard and
firm conclusion from a study of the craters and the angles
of impacts, taking into consideration the known laws of
celestial mechanics.

Some scientists have considered that cratering on the
Moon took place while the Moon was in orbit around our
Earth. This presents a ticklish problem. Kopal now claims
that convincing evidence indicates that such cratering could
not have taken place while the Moon was locked in orbit
around our Earth and Sun.

“Is there any escape from these conclusions?” asks Kopal.
“One would be to assume that for the most part the conti¬
nental impact craters were inflicted on the Moon before
its eventual capture by the Earth —when the Moon, travel¬
ing alone through space , may have been tumbling [spinning]
about its centre of mass, so that impacts from all directions
would have been equally likely.” (Emphasis added.)

Again, the evidence of the Moon clearly points to the
fact that our Moon must at one time have been a wander¬
ing world, journeying through the universe. But could not
the Moon have done this naturally, then accidentally been
captured by Earth’s gravitational field and locked into orbit
around our planet? We have seen that this unlikely capture
theory presents many difficulties, not the least of which
(as we have pointed out time and again) is how the Moon
could have been captured (and many scientists doubt that
it could have been) and yet still have taken up its circular,
well-behaved orbit around our world. Also, the peculiar
position the Moon has assumed around our world, which
permits it to produce eclipses, does indicate, as the Soviet
scientists suggest, that it was powered and steered here!

But this is not all. There is other convincing evidence
that this is exactly the case. For Kopal adds in conclusion:
“We have, therefore, no idea whether or not the Moon
could have been spin-stabilized in space before its hypo¬
thetical capture. However, even if this was not the case,

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it is most unlikely that any of its pre-existing surface
sculpture would have survived so brutal an experience as
capture of the Moon by the Earth would inevitably have
been. The need to slow down a passer-by to make capture
possible would have required a dissipation of so much
energy of the Moon through inelastic tides as could be
raised only at a very close approach; and such tides would
no doubt have obliterated most, if not all, of the pre¬
existing surface-markings.”

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But they did not! Clearly this is another indication that
this was not an ordinary “capture.” With this Spaceship-
Moon, of course, it was really no capture at all. It was, in
fact, an intelligently directed, powered, and steered maneu¬
ver that put the Moon in orbit around our Earth—so that
in a sense the Moon captured Earth and not the other way
around. They adopted us; not we them.

Another difficult problem solved in light of the Space¬
ship Moon theory!

This is the beauty of the Soviet spaceship theory. It is
comprehensive! It answers all the problems and puzzles;
solves all the mysteries and enigmas, dissolves all the lunar
contradictions and difficulties. It is the perfect solution, for
it fits all the evidence! And that evidence, as we have seen,
turns out to be proof that our Moon is a hollowed-out
spacecraft, artificially transformed from a ball of rock into
a metallic inside-out world.

FOR ONLY THE “SPACESHIP” MOON MAKES UN¬
DERSTANDABLE:

1. Why the Moon is a freak world—too big and too far
out to be the natural satellite of Earth.

2. Why the Moon could have a synchronized, almost
perfectly circular orbit.

3. Why the craters of the Moon are so numerous and so

strangely shallow. !

4. Why the Moon could have a great bulge on its far side,
which never faces Earth.

5. Why the Moon has such great internal strength.

6. Why the Moon, so bereft of iron in general, has a rich
band of iron and other metal in an inside layer.

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7. Why some Moon rocks are older than Earth and even
our solar system!

8. Why lunar rocks lying near each other can have such
varying ages.

9. Why lunar soil can be a billion years older in general
than rocks lying about it.

10. Why the Moon’s composition is so different from
Earth’s.

11. Why the Moon seems to have been made “inside out”

12. Why the maria and mascons can exist.

13. Why the maria have so much metal content of a highly
refractory nature.

14. Why the Moon can have pure metal particles, includ¬
ing iron that does not rust!

15. Why the Moon has heavier material that flowed to the
top, apparently against the laws of nature.

16. Why the Moon has evidence supporting both hot-
Mooners and cold-Mooners, indicating the Moon must
have been hot and at the same time proving it never
could have been.

17. Why the Moon has evidence of tremendous heating
and melting and yet is relatively cool today.

18. Why the Moon vibrates like a huge gong, conveying
tremors great distances and even completely around
the Moon.

19. Why the Moon appears to be a huge rubble pile.

20. Why the Moon has the “shakes” periodically, with
swarms of seismic activity.

21. Why the Moon seems to have such low density and
peculiar lightness, in that it gives every evidence of
being partly or wholely hollow.

22. Why seismic waves travel so fast through an extremely
hard inner layer, indicating a metal shell under its
rock crust.

23. Why the Moon produces identical seismic waves of
internal disturbances.

24. Why the Moon can be so precisely in the position it is
so that viewed from Earth it is equal in size to the
Sun’s disk, each canceling the other out during eclipses,
thus making possible such a unique phenomenon—the
only planet we know of that has this phenomenon.

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In addition to all this , the spaceship theory also makes

understandable such lunar enigmas as;

1. How the Mom could have been captured by Earth or
should we say^ow the Moon captured the Earth, yet
ended up with its^ unexplainable circular orbit,

2. How the Moon can be where it is, not in the usual
satellite orbit around our orb’s equator, but instead
following strangely an orbit closer to the Earth’s own
orbit around our Sun.

3. How the Moon can sustain its great lopsidedness.

4. How the Moon could have melted on its surface such
elements as titanium and zirconium that have tremen¬
dously high melting points.

5. How the Moon can have so much radioactivity in its
upper layers,

6. How the Moon can have internal vibrations and trem¬
ors that last for hours.

7. How the Moon can have internal disturbances at un¬
heard of depths.

8. How the Moon can affect -the magnetic needle of a
compass, even if ever so slightly.

9. How the Moon can have indications of being extremely
rigid at great depths and yet seemingly have other
properties and evidence to indicate it is warm.

10. How the Moon’s outer crustal surface could have been
melted so rapidly.

11. How can there be so much metal in the Moon’s maria,
even pure processed metal!

12. How and by what forces the Moon could have had
such significant redistribution of its crustal materials.

13. How the Moon could have come to have a strong
remanence without a molten core.

14. How the Moon can be a dry-as-dust world and yet have
occasional huge clouds of water vapor.

15. How the Moon can be volcanically dead and yet have
had hundreds of strange glows and lights and moving
objects on its surface in the past several centuries.

16. How the Moon can be a hollow shell yet not collapse
(due to its great metallic shell).

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17. How the Moon can spawn so many seeming natural
contradictions of data and findings, v

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BECAUSE IT IS, IN FACT, AN INTERNALLY,
ARTIFICIALLY TRANSFORMED WORLD—A SPACE¬
SHIP WORLD!

UFOs are astronautical craft, or entities . If they have
a fixed base of any kind, that base is likely the Moon .

—M orris Jessup

FOURTEEN __

SOMEBODY IS INSIDE THE MOON!

We have seen how remarkably the American and Soviet
evidence obtained from Moon expeditions all seems to back
the startling spaceship theory.

Admittedly, there are a lot of loose ends and unanswered
questions. One staggering one: Is the Moon an island of life
or a graveyard of ages past? Is it a celestial Flying Dutch¬
man floating through space that once harbored alien beings
or is it still teeming with alien life? Are there intelligent
beings there today?

We have seen in our opening chapters that hundreds of
weird lights and moving objects seen on the Moon indicate
that it may indeed yet be an island of life, either a home
of aliens or a base for visiting beings. Hundreds of strange
sightings in the past several centuries since the invention
of the telescope convince us that such may be the case. And
the strange UFO encounters our lunar astronauts had are
the clincher, the final proof.

Admittedly, the Soviet scientists who devised the space¬
ship theory speculate that Spaceship Moon is an abandoned
world. But, as we have seen, it may not be a completely
dead celestial body after all. Maybe it is not alive vol¬
canically, but there is definite evidence that it is alive
biologically—that is, there are live alien beings up there
(living, of course, on the inside).

Strangely enough, when the Apollo Moon program be¬
gan, ostensibly the orthodox scientists of Earth were only
looking for simple forms of life, like microbes.

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Did lunar scientists expect to find life on the surface of
this seemingly dead world? When Dr. Eugene Shoemaker,
one of NASA’s leading scientists, was asked this question
he laughed ^ut loud.

“Well, of cb^sjse, there are the lunar elephants!” he re¬
sponded. “We’ll see those!”

Shoemaker was referring to a pompous seventeenth-
century English researcher, Sir Paul Neal, who announced
after peering through a telescope that he had discovered an
elephant on the Moon! Needless to say, this announcement
caused quite a stir of excitement until, as the story goes,

people found that all he had seen was a mouse that had

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apparently crept into his telescope.

LIFE ON THE MOON?

One problem foremost in the minds of many Earth scien¬
tists was the task of landing astronauts on the Moon with¬
out contaminating the surface with earth-bred organisms
and germs. And vice versa, without contaminating Earth
upon the astronauts’ return. This theoretically could be
fraught with great danger. So strict precautions were taken.
Our first astronauts were isolated and examined for many
days upon their return to make sure they had no con¬
taminating microbes on them.

Scientists were intensely interested in finding out whether
our Moon had any evidence of life on its seemingly sterile
surface. The dust brought back to Earth from the Moon
seemed to be as dead and bereft of life as the Moon itself
appears to the ordinary observer.

No evidence of life was found in any of the Moon rocks
or soil brought back to Earth, although one physicist exam¬
ining a sample of lunar dust was startled when he looked
through a microscope to see what appeared to be a Moon
organism with legs and feelers! It turned out to be only a
flea that had come from a dog which had strayed into
the lab.

The precious Moon dust was examined microscopically
very carefully and subjected to over 300 different tests to
see if anything would live in it. Nothing did. One scientist
thought he had found what appeared to be columns of

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microbes. However, the pretty turquoise mold turned out
to be a wholly chemical phenomenon.

Although no Moon organism was found growing in 300
different environments, strangely enough, scientists found
that Moon dust itself seems to help plants to flourish and
-grow lustily.

Scientists, many of whom were from the U.S. Depart¬
ment of Agriculture, were unable to account fully for this
phenomenon. Nevertheless, some were convinced after sev¬
eral experiments that it had to do with the chemistry of
the lunar dust itself, which appeared to be much like vol¬
canic ash of Earth in the way it stimulated growth. But in
essence, chemists and geochemists alike were mystified by
this puzzling phenomenon.

In any event, the important discovery does show that
plants can be grown on Moon dust, which means that a
Moon colony, if ever established, would have no difficulty
in furnishing sufficient food from luxurious lunar gardens.
For it seems to be an ideal medium to grow lush gardens in.

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FOUND ON THE MOON!

The Moon has been labeled by most scientists a dead
world, volcanically and biologically. Seemingly, no life
exists on its surface. And no direct evidence of life has
turned up in its dust and dirt.

And this seems to be just what most scientists expected.
For this waterless, airless blasted rock in our skies is full
of deadly radiation and racked by tremendous changes from
day to night, which of course does not make it a likely
haven for any kind of life. On the outside it appears to be
one huge sterilizer in the sky. But, clearly, who knows what
exists underneath the protective layers of rock and crust?
Life might now be thriving in the interior of this mystery
world.

It is interesting to note that in mid-1971 a team of bio¬
chemists announced that they had found traces of organic
chemicals in a sample of soil returned from the Moon.
“They found complex carbon-based compounds—not liv¬
ing matter, or even material that was alive. But the long
chain, carbon-based molecules that you and I are corn-

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posed of. If organic compounds have been found on the
Moon, can there be life there too?” asks science writer Ben
Bova. ( The New Astronomies , St Martin’s Press, 1972.)

Similarly, the scholarly periodical Scientific American , in
an article entitled “The Carbon Chemistry of the Moon”
(October 1972) claims that “exhaustive analysis of the
Apollo samples reveals various simple organic compounds.
These substances did not originate with life, but they add
to t 'le store of information on how life originated.”

t nd we add with Scientific American that they make it
“increasingly likely that we are not alone in the universe.”

However, this highly respected journal of scientific
thought appears to be ignoring the overwhelming weight
of evidence that not only is our Moon a spaceship but it is
an occupied spacecraft! For the facts show the Moon is
teeming with intelligent life!

INTELLIGENT LIFE ON THE MOON

Not only have strange lights, weird moving glows, and
unidentified Flying Objects been spotted on the Moon
throughout the telescopic age of man—the period man has
been observing our satellite through a telescope—but other
strange phenomena taking place constantly on her surface
indicate that life is indigenous to the Moon. That it has
been there a long time and appears to be using the Moon
as a base for operations.

Perhaps the most unexplainable reports of all were the
astronomic sightings of strange structures and weird
changes taking place on the surface of this supposedly dead
and changeless world.

Astronomers have concluded that the Moon is an airless,
windless, and for the most part erosionless world. At least,
this is what scientists have been telling mankind for a long
time. It is a changeless orb. Yet in the past several cen¬
turies many peculiar changes and happenings have been de¬
tected by competent observers, taking place on the Moon’s
surface right under their eyes, for which they have no satis¬
factory explanation.

We have seen how expert astronomers like the late Mor¬
ris Jessup, formerly a leading astronomer of the University

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of Michigan, concluded that these lights and bright mov¬
ing “spots” astronomic observers all over the world have
been reporting over the past several centuries are nothing
else than UFOs—spaceships of alien beings on the Moon!

And indeed many of these strange reported sightings do
seem to be just that. For instance, on September 7, 1800,
several people in France observed strange objects moving
in straight lines above the surface of the Moon during a
lunar eclipse. They appeared to be close to the Moon’s
surface. Then, as these observers watched, the objects all
turned in the same straight line, separated by uniform spac¬
ing, as precise as though they were in military formation.

In his book The Case for the UFO Jessup concludes also
that in addition to lunar lights there are exterior dome-like
constructions on the Moon that indicate their presence
there.

Evidence that they have been building strange domelike
structures on the Moon surface is impressive. Several hun¬
dred have been reported. Some claim that they now number
over 700. Points out astronomer Morris Jessup: "Two hun¬
dred years ago there were none.” (The Expanding Case for
the UFO.)

Some of these strangest of all lunar structures are rather
large—nearly 700 feet in diameter. The great English as¬
tronomer Dr. H. P. Wilkins points to one discovered as late
as 1953. On September 26 of that year, F. H. Thornton
sighted “a sort of island of light amid the blackness, clearly
proving that it was raised, in fact a dome.” {Our Moon)

Wilkins observes: “It is curious that this is the first time
that such a thing has been seen. Is it possible that it has
only become a dome recently.” {Our Moon.)

This great English astronomer points out that earlier ob¬
servers, "many of them possessed of good telescopes,”
strangely enough did not record them or "recorded few of
the domes.” Wilkins Often refers to this nickname “bowler
domes” for to him “they look for all the world like
[English] bowler hats.” {Our Moon.)

Jessup cites many examples of such domelike structures
suddenly appearing on the Moon. Here are a few of the
more startling ones:

September 1889—Professor Thury of Geneva ob-

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served the sudden appearance in the crater Plinius of a
“circular, chalk-like spot in the center.” Jessup con¬
cludes: “Clearly this was a UFO. What else could
something of a temporary nature with a little spot in
the center be?” he asks.

To Jessup such bright, circular white spots, which
are described as domes, are UFOs.

The British astronomer Birt in 1879 noted “bright
spots” appearing in crater Hyginus. Astronomer N. E.
Green also observed dramatic changes in the crater
Hyginus. In Astronomical Register (Vol. XVII, p.
144) he noted that the crater changed its brightness
from night to night and that “evidently no crater or
hollow” seemed to exist there any longer “but seems
rather a spot of color instead of a crater, but this can¬
not be the case because it is lost when the sun rises.”

Other astronomers have noted rapid changes here
“showing markings which changed their appearances
completely in twenty minutes.” This is too rapid a
change to ascribe to anything else but intelligent con¬
trol, concludes the astronomer Jessup.

Astronomer Eiger described “a bright round spot”
suddenly appearing in the crater Fracastorius. In a
different light it resembled a low, circular hill or
“round-topped tableland.” It was domelike—one of
the many domes which suddenly appeared on the
Moon. But this one suddenly took on a remarkable
appearance, different from some of the others. Notes
Jessup: “It seemed to be surrounded by a peculiar
glow quite different from the lights of other spots on
the floor of Fracastorius, and in the center of the glow
I could just distinguish a delicate crater of the most
minute type, which would certainly not have been
visible had not the definition been exceptionally good.”

Similarly, strange “bright round spots” have appeared all
over the Moon. Many bright round spots appeared in areas
of strange activity like Plato or the Sea of Crisis. Com¬
menting on the strange “very bright round spots” suddenly
appearing in the largest of the craterlets on the floor of

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Plato, where so many bright lights have been reported,
the English astronomer Wilkins notes: “Why an object
which usually requires some looking for should have sud¬
denly become a large bright spot is a mystery. It looked
as though a little craterlet was filled with something which
strongly reflected sunlight. Whatever it was, it completely
altered the usual appearance, turning a well-defined crater-
let into a bright spot”

Jessup says of this remarkable change in the Plato
Crater: “Wilkins seems to have failed to note the parallel¬
ism here to Linne and other ‘bowler hat’ phenomena which
he himself has mentioned.”

Wilkins, of course, unlike Jessup, does not state that these
are definitely evidence of alien intelligence on the Moon.
In the book Our Moon he freely admits his puzzlement:
“We cannot subscribe to this idea because without air to
breathe it is exceedingly difficult to contemplate the ex¬
istence of selenites let alone to speculate as to their possible
activities, industrial or otherwise. It is equally difficult to ex¬
plain these things on natural grounds.”

Jessup, who obviously has a high regard for this great En¬
glish astronomer’s judgment and refers to his books as “one
of the most modern of lunar treatises and most generous
to lunar activity,” does not quite agree with Wilkins, but
notes that these strange domelike structures began to appear
over a hundred years ago although in sparse numbers.

Wilkins does point out that the “foremost seleneog-
rapher” of the nineteenth century, Nasmyth, claims that
none existed apart from one sighted north of Birt Crater
near the Straight Wall. Wilkins, however, notes that “today
they are known [there] in considerable quantities.” He
claims he and Patrick Moore alone have discovered nearly
a hundred. Wilkins claims that domes increased in number
every year during the fifties. Jessup writing in the fifties,
claimed: “Their number doubles just about every twenty
years ” (The Expanding Case for the UFO.)

Jessup agrees with Wilkins that these domes are indeed
mysterious. He agrees essentially with the great British
astronomer that “in spite of his own extensive study and
review of all other reports, he cannot explain the domes.”

Jessup does point out, however, that there were only
“two in 1865.” By his own time, in the 1950s, there were

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over 200. Some estimate today there are nearly 1000!

One of the earliest and most impressive sudden appear¬
ances of a dome on the Moon took place in the well-known
crater Linne, which had been mapped by a great number
of astronomers and then suddenly disappeared. In the mid-
1860s dramatic changes began to take place in Linne. In
the 1840s Johann Schroeter had mapped a 6-mile crater
named Linne. It had a depth of about 1200 feet.

This German astronomer made hundreds of the maps of
the Moon over many years, yet in the instance of Linne his
observations noted that this crater had, strangely, disap¬
peared. Then, in November 1866, changes began to occur
in Linne with puzzling rapidity. On November 13, 1866,
the astronomer Webb described “an ill-defined whiteness**
he saw there. Talmadge claimed he saw “a circular dark
cloud.” The astronomer Denning claimed that on January
8 he saw a small hill rise out of Linne, appearing to be a
“very brilliant point of Light.” Later Denning concluded
that a “hill” existed here. He even described “a white cloud
which had replaced Linne.**

What do astronomers make of all this? Jessup claims if
you combine all the descriptions you come up with artificial
structures of some kind. He believes they could be UFOs.

In The Expanding Case for the UFO Jessup gives
page after page of the map changes and data on how Linne
changed in size and structure, even on the dome itself that
“covered” Linne.

He says: “So the ‘thing* covering Linne was fluctuating
in size as well as brightness.” He asks: “If this was a real
cloud [as some described it] what prevented it from dis¬
sipating into the vacuous atmosphere of the moon?”
He notes that it was too tenuous to cast a shadow, yet
opaque enough “to obscure the surface below it.” How
to account for all this?

Jessup quotes the astronomer Wilkins: “Today Linne is
the reverse of a crater, being in fact a hill or dome with
a minute pit on its summit.’**

Jessup, who believes Linne is definitely an artificial alien

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*As noted before, NASA claims that photos of this area show no
dome-like structure but only a tiny, pitted area.

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construction and maybe even a UFO, asks: “Was Linne the
first 'colony'?” That is, the first of returning “Moonmen”
in modern times. He insists that intelligences have been on
the Moon from time to time at least since the early be¬
ginnings of human civilization.

Jessup makes a striking observation about this strange
domelike structure which he claims is true for all such con¬
structions. “There must be some significance in these un-
focusable spots and nebulosities on the Moon. What pre¬
vents a telescope from receiving a sharp image when the
surroundings are perfectly clear?’*

Concludes the orthodox scientist who is able to shed his
orthodox views: “This is the first report of this series of
UFO operations—the disappearing craters, superimposed
nebulosities (clouds, mists) and the rest. . . .”

Strange clouds of all kinds, shapes, and sizes appearing
and moving around the surface of the Moon, some with
lightinglike speed, i«..ve been recorded, as the NASA report
examined in Chapter 2 noted. What does Jessup make of
these?

This bold astronomer tackles the problem head on: “How
solve the enigma of small clouds associated with minute
craters on the surface of an orb which has practically no
atmosphere? Something must be generating and dispersing
these clouds that appear and disappear in a manner not con¬
sistent with a highly ratified atmosphere.”

With the present knowledge we have garnered from our
recent studies of the Moon, we now know for sure that
clouds are absolutely impossible on this airless world.

Yet “clouds” have been seen. What are they?

Take a typical sighting reported in great detail by the
English astronomer Birt. He notes that he saw “a white-
cloud-like spot” appear suddenly near Picard. (Astronom¬
ical Register, 1864, Vol. II, p. 295.)

Birt comments on this “cloud”: “In the course of my
observations, as I observed the locality under oblique
illumination, the white cloud spot became invisible or did
not exist; which, I can not say. But its want of definiteness
and its similarity in appearance to a cloud led me to hesitate
before expressing an opinion as to what it really appeared
to be. Further observation brought to light a small pit-like
depression in its neighborhood with which the larger cloud-

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like marking appeared to be connected. The pit-like depres¬
sion is of a beautiful whiteness and shows up when the
cloud is not visible.”

Jessup identifies these “clouds” with the strange domes
of the Moon. He says: “This looks very much like the lair
of some sort of UFO.” Both the “clouds” and the “domes,”
he is convinced, are some kind of UFO.

For hadn’t a number of astronomers described the
strange dome that appeared at Linne as a “cloud”? In 1866
the astronomer Schmidt announced that the well-known
Linne Crater, which had been mapped by a great number
of astronomers before it suddenly disappeared, had turned
“into a whitish cloud.” Significantly he added, it “appears to
be moving around.”

This surely sounds like a UFO. And Jessup concludes
that it is exactly that!

Unlike other astronomers, however, Wilkins does not
pass them off as purely natural phenomena or deny that
they even exist.

In this regard the great English astronomer remarks
somewhat acidly:

Of course, the cynics will declare that these pe¬
culiarities have no real existence, that it is all a case
of observers being mistaken. However, it is a remark¬
able thing that the people who refuse to believe these
things are the very people who have the least experi¬
ence in observing the Moon. Some of them have never
seen the Moon through a telescope. Perhaps this is
wise, for if they did they might be converted.

It is like the contemporary of Galileo who declared,
having proved to satisfaction that satellites or moons
of the Planet Jupiter did not exist, and then would
not look through Galileo’s telescope in case he should
see them. He died shortly afterwards, which prompted
Galileo to remark that it was to be hoped that he saw
them while on his way to heaven! (Our Moon.)

Wilkins does not make the most direct conclusion,
which Jessup does, about all these domes, clouds, and
other strange “events” taking place on the Moon. For
Jessup concludes that they are evidence of alien beings on

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the satellite of Earth. Interestingly, Wilkins does not reject
this possibility. In fact, he and colleague and coauthor,
Patrick Moore in their book The Moon confess: “It is not
impossible that on the Moon there may exist, or have once
existed, some form of life peculiar to the Moon and totally
unlike anything known on Earth.”

But Jessup is bolder. Studying the evidence of lights,
clouds, and domes on the Moon, he hesitates not a single
moment before proclaiming them to be the evidence of
alien beings. He notes the close association of the inexplic¬
able disappearing craters with bright spots, domes, lights,
and “clouds.” “Note the frequency which spots, lights
and clouds appear in groups of one to eight or nine—on
the Moon.” {The Expanding Case for the UFO.)

To Jessup, the crack astronomer, there can be no other
conclusion: They are UFOs and evidence of alien intelli¬
gence on and probably coming from inside this strange
world of the Moon.

STRANGE DISAPPEARANCES ON THE MOON

Some astronomers may argue that the appearance of a
cloud of dust is merely a meteor hitting and “kicking up”
Moon particles on the surface. Until recently others in¬
sisted that the sudden appearance of a dome or mist was
due to volcanic activity, a theory eliminated by scientific
evidence that proves our Moon has been a dead world for
eons—-volcanically dead, that is.

Then how to explain the disappearance of a structure
on the Moon? And these have occurred. On the edge of the
Sea of Cold, not far from the strange crater which has
been the center of so much activity on the Moon, Plato,
is a large, almost perfect square, described by astronomer
Madler in detail. Madler says that within this rampartslike
square structure of four walls “was an almost perfect cross
formed by white ridges.”

Yet today it is gone. Wilkins, using the greatest telescope
in Europe, reports confidently that one side of the square
no longer exists and that the cross has disappeared! The
area has been searched and searched with telescopes ten
times the diameter of the one used by Madler. Says Jessup:

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“Something, then moved away a huge wall and a great
cross. What could that be—alien intelligence?” ( The Ex¬
panding Case for the UFO,)

Jessup then quotes the British astronomer Wilkins, whose
puzzlement we have already noted, as candidly confessing
that we cannot completely rule out the possibility that these
changes on the Moon’s surface, this seeming “intelligent
activity” indicated by “events” and “happenings” on the
Moon’s surface, could possibly indicate the existence of
intelligent beings on the Moon. Although Wilkins does not
take the final step and conclude that intelligent beings exist
on the Moon, he does admit that these “events” cannot be
explained away “on natural grounds.”

Jessup, who has sincere admiration for Wilkins, ob¬
serves: “This is an active mind striving against the fetters
of dogmatized science. This is as far as we may ask an
astronomer to go in advocating intelligence on the Moon,
or anywhere else in space. More would cut him off from
his profession. Let this man of authority state the obser¬
vational facts. I, already an outcast, will cheerfully take
the rap by stating bluntly what the facts imply— UFO
activity!” (The Expanding Case for the UFO . Emphasis
added.)

Most of these sightings took place several decades ago;
some centuries ago. Is there any evidence that there are
intelligent beings on the Moon today?

Before Jessup died in the late fifties he also authored a
number of UFO annuals. In his UFO Annual for 1955 he
reports that two amateur astronomers saw a strange happen¬
ing on the Moon on the night of July 5, 1955. One ob¬
server saw a strange light “hover for three minutes and
then move off the Moon.”

Jessup concludes: “That’s controlled motion and control
means intelligence!”

One of these astronomers reported that the spot of light
appeared at the exact center of the Moon’s disk; the other
said it had moved to the Moon’s edge. That established
two base lines, one on Earth, one on the Moon, notes
Jessup. With these two lines and the known distance from
the Earth to the Moon it was possible to locate that UFO’s
position in space. It was 95,000 miles out.

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This is perhaps the most amazing sighting and evidence
Jessup comes up with to indicate UFOs in the vicinity of
the Moon.

In our book Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon f we noted
the many sightings of our Apollo astronauts. But if we are
to belieive an account related by a former Russian space
scientist who defected from the Soviet Union to France
in 1969, the Soviets had actually landed men on the Moon.
The story is interesting because the claim is made that while
there Soviet astronauts had a strange encounter with “alien
intelligences.”

In an interview carried in Beyond Magazine (February
1969) Professor Lev Mohilyn, who claims he participated
in the Soviet space program before his defection relates the
account of that unknown Soviet mission. On June 5, 1968,
according to his story, a manned Russian rocket was
launched from a base in the Ural Mountains. Its destination:
the Moon. It carried two cosmonauts (Ilya and Evgeny),
who successfully made it to the Moon in three days. After
accomplishing a soft landing they left their craft to carry
out some explorations on the lunar surface. However, while
out there, according to Professor Mohilyn, a “mechanical
monster” attacked Evgeny and killed him. Ilya rushed back
to the spaceship and upon orders blasted off the Moon’s
surface. She (Ilya was a lady cosmonaut) eventually safely
completed the return trip to Earth.

Is there anything to back up Mohilyn’s incredible story?
No one knows. It seems to be utterly preposterous on the
surface, and while it is true that the Soviets never (at least
to Western world’s knowledge) ever claimed to have
achieved a manned landing on the Moon, unquestionably
they had the power and capability to attempt such a land¬
ing. But it is doubtful that they could have accomplished
a successful landing at that early a time. Their journey
purportedly (if we are to believe Professor Mohilyn’s ac¬
count) took place a full year before Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon.

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RADIO SIGNALS FROM INSIDE THE MOON?

Another unauthenticated account claims that radio sig¬
nals have been received from inside the Moon.

Back in the late thirties, radio engineer Grote Reber
allegedly was trying out a radical new type of radio tele¬
scope experimenting for the Bell Telephone Company in
New Jersey. The purpose of the experiment he claimed
was to collect and “focus radio waves from space.” Riley
Crabb of the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation
who relates this incredible account, notes that although
“orthodox astronomy says the moon is a dead place,”
according to Bell Telephone engineer, Karl Jansky “some¬
thing is happening there; for Reber turned his radio tele¬
scope on the Moon and did receive signals from the Moon.
This was years ago, before such information was classified
top secret. Jansky said the radio signals originated from
inside the Moon, not on the surface. This would indicate
that the interior of the moon is inhabited,” concludes
Crabb. ( Meeting on the Moon , Borderland Sciences
Research Foundation, 1964.)

Though this story cannot be verified, it is interesting to
note that other reports of radio signals emanating from
the Moon have been verified. In our book Our Mysterious
Spaceship Moon we noted that in 1927, 1928, and 1934
“mystifying radio signals were detected in the vicinity of
our companion world, the Moon, by various radio re¬
searchers.”

In 1935 two scientists named Van Der Pol and Stormer
detected radio signals on and around our Moon. Even radio
and electrical geniuses Marconi and Tesla turned in some
strange reports.

Perhaps the most recent such radio signals to be reported
to our knowledge occurred in 1956 and were picked up by
Ohio University and other observatories around the world.
At the time Ohio University researchers claimed to have
received a “codelike chatter from the Moon.” (Saga, April

1974.)

Whether the radio evidence is valid or not, there appears
to be no doubt that the cumulative tons of evidence of
thousands of strange lights and moving objects on the Moon

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and the sightings of our Apollo astronauts, as well as
various other strange things happening on the Moon, do
indicate that without a doubt not only is our Moon a
spaceship but it still has intelligent beings aboard!

ARE ALIENS TAMPERING WITH
OUR SPACE EQUIPMENT?

There have been some strange things happening to our
space equipment on the Moon which might indicate that
aliens are still there.

In April 1976 the New York Times News service carried
an intriguing article about a startling development that
took place on the Moon. “Mysterious Force Pesters Apollo
Station” ( Detroit Free Press , April 22, 1976.)

The seismometer station which had been set upon the
Moon by Apollo 14 astronauts (one of five deployed there)
had been operating without a hitch since February 1971.
Then suddenly it went dead in March 1975. Naturally
NASA officials were not surprised when it stopped work¬
ing. When the radio receiver failed in March 1975 and
the transmitter quit working on January 18, 1976, NASA
scientists were anything but disturbed. The Apollo Lunar
Scientific Experiments Package (ALSEPS) scientists had
thought it would last only about a year. Strangely, the
atomic power supplying the ALSEPS lasted much longer
than scientists anticipated.

The mystery, however, began when about a month later
(February 19, 1976) the Apollo 14 ALSEPS equipment
suddenly began working again. Furthermore, the mystery
deepened for not only did the radio transmitter and receiver
begin operating perfectly once more, but one of the
ALSEPS experiments that had never operated in the in¬
tense heat of lunar daytime now began “operating flaw¬
lessly night and day.”

Then, according to the Times news service, one month
later “the mysterious force shut the whole station down
again.” Charles Redwood, NASA spokesman out of Hous¬
ton, candidly admitted: “It’s a bit of a mystery. We have

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a number of people trying to figure what’s happening up
there but we haven’t got an answer yet.”

Are we to conclude from this “mystery force’* pestering
one of our Apollo stations that someone is on the Moon?
There is undoubtedly another explanation to this Moon
mystery. But other far more substantial and impressive
evidence exists to indicate that our spaceship Moon is pres¬
ently occupied.

THE APOLLO 16 MYSTERY

A similar incident happened to the Apollo 16 spacecraft
which a few sensationaliStic writers seized as evidence that
intelligent “Moon beings” were trying to play havoc with
our space probes.

Our Apollo 16 lunar spacecraft was suddenly thrown
off course. Richard Lewis a reliable science reporter, says:
“No one knew what happened to throw the inertial guid¬
ance system into a lock. It was probably one of those
mysterious, electrical transients called a ‘glitch* that no one
really understands but that create temporary malfunction
in electronic equipment and then disappear without a
trace.” ( The Voyages of Apollo,)

Modern People Press Special UFO Report (Spring 1976)
includes another strange incident in an article intriguingly
entitled “Unexplained Lunar Mysteries Point to Intelligent
‘Moon Men.* ” They note that a “mysterious electrical
impulse” stopped our unmanned Ranger III spacecraft
from taking television pictures after it landed on the Moon.
There appeared to be no malfunction, but something
countermanded an order radioed by the NASA Goldstone
Tracking Station. Apparently no explanation was forth¬
coming for what happened and no one could “even guess
from whence the impulse emanated.”

Do such accounts indicate “intelligent Moon men”?
Hardly. There probably are rational explanations for
them which explain them on natural grounds. However, as
we have seen time and again, there is overwhelming evi¬
dence to support the conclusion that a strange alien pres¬
ence does exist on the Moon, as shown by the many strange,

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unexplainable encounters the Apollo astronauts experienced
there. Almost every Apollo astronaut saw strange lights,
unidentified flying objects, or heard strange radio noises or
sounds. This plus the astronomic evidence of definite ac¬
tivity on the Moon in the past several decades as well as
centuries, continuing to the present time, would lead any
open-minded investigator to the conclusion that someone
is up there on the Moon. Lights and glows, strange struc¬
tures, flying objects that move and hover above the surface
of the Moon seen both by astronauts and astronomers,
cannot all be explained away as optical illusions or hallu¬
cinations. No, someone is occupying the Moon. And they
may have a great deal to do with you and me—and our
home, Earth.

. . . / think people are hungering for mystery , and
the moon has been a place of mystery for man as
long as the human race has existed .

—Astronaut James Irwin

FIFTEEN _

THE MULTIPLYING MYSTERIES OF THE MOON

Our view of the Moon may be considered revolutionary
but we must remember that our own view of our own
planet Earth today would have been considered science
fiction a mere two centuries ago.

Less than two hundred years ago the scientific world
thought that our planet was but a few thousand years old.
Then scientists like Charles Lyell (1797-1875), the father
of modem geology, began to see that, contrary to common
thought of the time, changes on Earth took place slowly
over eons, rather than quickly; that indeed Earth was hun¬
dreds of millions if not billions of years old.

This doctrine of change in the “chemistry of time”
(called uniformitarianism), says science writer Richard
Lewis in his intriguing book The Voyages of Apollo , “was
the key to understanding the Solar System. Without this
idea it would have been a waste of time and money from
a scientific point of view to have explored the Moon, or

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any other planet. One simply could not have understood
what one was looking at** (Emphasis added.)

This may be still true today in regard to the Moon.
Scientists locked in orthodox methods cannot shake old
ways of thinking.

Concludes Lewis: “It may be the mysteries of the Moon
still eluding science require for their solution a new con¬
ceptual departure as radical as uniformitarianism was in
the eighteenth century.** (Emphasis added.)

Urey told his fellow scientists just before our manned
explorations of the Moon began: “Let your imaginations

go . .

This does not mean to give free rein to the imagination
without sticking to the facts and the evidence, but merely
to allow for consideration other imaginative ideas or the¬
ories about the origin and nature of this mysterious Moon
of ours.

Dr. S. Agrell of the University of Cambridge in England
said the same thing: “It seems to me that lunar geology is
something which is quite distinct.” Agrell sounded the
warning to his fellow scientists: -“Clinging to earthly geol¬
ogy is like wearing a special kind of blinders, which do
not allow the scientist to be imaginative enough.” ( Science
News, January 10, 1970.)

Yet scientists today for the most part remain strait-
jacketed in the old orthodoxy—locked in old ways of
looking at the Moon.

In 1975 when this author published our ground-breaking
investigation of the bizarre Soviet artificial-Moon theory,
we hoped ardently it would send “shock waves throughout
the scientific world,” as the publisher predicted. Copies of
the book were sent to just about all the leading scientists
quoted extensively in the work. Unfortunately, some, like
the late great Dr. Paul Gast had passed away in the interim.

Yet very few of those scientists who received a copy of
the book took the trouble to respond to this striking Soviet
thesis. One well-known scientist and space expert returned
the manila envelope (in which the book was sent) un¬
opened. It was marked in his handwriting: “Rejected.”
Apparently he had seen my name on the- return address,
and although he knew me not, probably had heard I had

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quoted him in this shocking book and this was too much
for his sensitive closed mind. He refused to even accept a
complimentary copy of the work.

Most did accept it but never bothered to respond one
way or the other. Probably most passed off the book as
just the work of another crackpot—in this case “lunatic.”
The Moon couldn’t possibly be a spaceship. They un¬
doubtedly rejected this book despite the fact that the work
is based almost entirely on factual evidence that both our
American space scientists and the Soviet scientists them¬
selves documented. All we did was cite the facts and apply
it to the Soviet theory—which, by the way, we might point
out is the brainchild of two orthodox researchers, not ours.

Only a few scientists bothered to respond; still fewer
admitted that the Soviet spaceship theory could be correct.
One scientist did however, go so far as to encourage me
to continue my research work and publish the facts what¬
ever they might be.

Realistically, however, the theory is just too bizarre to
be given open-minded serious consideration. It is just
simply too far out, too “science-fictionish” to be given even
passing consideration by orthodox scientists.

One aging dean of lunar experts did acknowledge receiv¬
ing and reading the book—at least in part. That is, he read
it up to the statement that the “Moon was a spaceship.”
That turned him off immediately. Then he added:

“I have not read your entire book . . , [but] read through
to the suggestion that the Moon was made by human efforts.
This, of course, cannot be true. Man has a great deal of
capacity for doing things, but making a moon is beyond his
capacity. It just cannot be a correct explanation.”

Although this aging scientist is one of the top men in his
field, he did have the courage to freely admit that after
all his and his colleagues study, the Moon remains a com¬
plete mystery to man. Still, he could not bring himself
around to even considering an unorthodox theory.

Of course, the asinity of the entire episode is pointed
up by the fact that he was so closed-minded he did not
even read far enough to realize that in no way did either
this author or the Soviet researchers who formulated the
theory ever suggest the Moon was “made by human ef¬
forts.” Unquestionably it was made by alien intelligences

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who are obviously well beyond the level of human tech¬
nology. Either the good doctor misunderstood the entire
thrust of the theory or with his strait jacketed orthodox
mind he felt if the Moon, as the Soviet scientists insist, is
“the creation of alien intelligence,” this must mean man,
for in his mind, as in many scientists* minds, the only in¬
telligent being in the universe is man.

Undoubtedly much is left to be ferreted out. With the
secrecy enshrouding our space program, however, this
might be difficult to accomplish. For as we have pointed
out, our government and its space agency have indeed
been covering up the truth, hiding it from the public mind
probably because of the fear of panic that such frightening
news might bring.

It is left for the people themselves to bring it all out
into the open. You can help. Maybe if enough people
marshal themselves and mount enough pressure then we
can crack this shroud of secrecy wide open.

After the publication of my first book on this subject,
Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon f the head of a Midwest
education association wrote and told me he found the work
“thought provoking but very troubling.’*

He said: “Like many, I have suspected for quite some
time that several of our government agencies have been
‘keeping things from the public* regarding discoveries made
during various of our space explorations. Your book only
serves to confirm and deepen that suspicion. I wish that
there were some way that citizens could press these gov¬
ernmental agencies for further information.”

There is, of course, always the opportunity to write to
your elected officials, whether congressmen or President.
Many of the more highly respected UFO organizations
(Dr. Hynek’s Center for UFO Studies, APRO, NICAP,
and MUFON) have over the years continued to criticize
the government’s cover-up policy in regard to the existence
of UFOs.

In regard to the Moon there is another way. If sufficient
evidence were collected of the more sensational kind in
regard to the governmental space program cover-up, then
perhaps the people would be aroused enough to get what
we’re supposed to have in the country, “a government of
the people, by the people and FOR the people.” This coun-

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try was designed by our Founding Fathers to be free and
will survive only with a government that is open and above¬
board in its dealings with the people. As citizens of this
land we have a duty to find out what is going on, to learn
the truth whatever it might be.

THE GREAT WORK OF LUNAR SCIENTISTS

We do not in the least intend to demean the outstanding
work that our dedicated scientists have already done.
Indeed, these quiet heroes devoted to learning the truth
about the Moon have worked wholeheartedly for years,
mostly with frustration but not completely without
success.

As astronaut Eugene Ceman, the last man on the Moon,
told a conference of space workers at Cape Kennedy in
1973: “Apollo 17 had the shoulders of giants on which we
stood as we reached for the stars. . . . These were your
shoulders and we thank you for them.”

I sincerely wish to acknowledge that in the writing of
this work (as well as my first book on this subject, Our
Mysterious Spaceship Moon) we too have had the shoul¬
ders of giants that enabled us to divine the truth about
our Moon. We thank these many giants of science whom
we freely quoted and whose work we so frequently cited
in these books. We thank them—for without them these
works could not have been written.

In fact, we must humbly point out that we did not orig¬
inate the artificial-Moon theory. Far greater minds than
ours accomplished this feat. The author, in fact, is only
an open-minded curious student of life who chanced upon
it and who followed the facts wherever they led—in this
case, it would seem, to an unbelievable truth.

In the truest sense, I am merely a compiler, an organizer,
a synthesizer, as it were. All credit must go to those scien¬
tific giants—first the two Soviet researchers who originated
the theory, and secondly to the army of international lunar
experts whose hard work and dedication ferreted out the
facts and the findings which filled in the skeletal outline
of the Soviet spaceship theory. The artificial-Moon theory

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is really their brainchild. I am merely its mental midwife.

It is with this in mind that I appeal to my readers, invit¬
ing them to communicate to me any direct or indirect
knowledge of any such cover-ups. As we have seen, the
Moon is swirling with mysteries. Who knows but focusing
the public attention on any one of these revelations might
be enough to blow the lid on the entire secret closet of
governmental space cover-ups.

The evidence we have cited in this book proves that we
have on our hands today another Watergate—a cosmic
Watergate. UFOs are swirling around our planet and offi¬
cial governmental agencies have tried desperately to pass
them off as mistaken objects or the product of public hallu¬
cination. There appears to be sufficient evidence to con¬
clude that the Moon is the base for these UFOs coming to
our Earth. There is not much doubt about it—we are under
observation! For what purpose we can only guess. We
believe, however, that the people should be attuned to
truth so that if something shocking happens in this regard
tomorrow, people will be ready for it. Otherwise, if a sud¬
den, shocking revelation does come, that might produce
panic.

AN APPEAL TO READERS

Perhaps one of the most telling ways we can crack the
curtain of secrecy is to bring to public attention any shock¬
ing examples of cover-up of a startling nature. After my
first book on the Moon came into print a number of in¬
terested readers took the trouble to write me, expressing
their concern. Some of them imparted tidbits of informa¬
tion that proved useful.

An editor of a prominent national magazine in New
York asked me bluntly if I had ever run across any ac¬
counts of a huge space platform which our lunar astronauts
were supposed to have sighted on the far side of the Moon.
He had heard rumors that one many miles across had been
seen but was covered up by the space agency. At the time
I told him frankly I had not. But the story piqued my in¬
terest and led me to do a little digging. Now we know

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the astronauts did see such a structure (see Chapter 3)—
at least according to some reports.

Another magazine editor told me that several readers
had written to him claiming that one of the astronauts (on
television )had “picked up what looked like a glass bottle.”
The astronaut was supposed to have exclaimed as he did
so: “My God, I don’t believe it, look at this . .

However, those who communicated this story to the edi¬
tor claimed that the television screen suddenly “went blank
and into some news . .

Is there anything to this story? Or this one: A high
school student once enthusiastically related to me the fact
that he had a complete collection of tapes recorded from
television commentary of the various Apollo explorations
of the Moon. He said that one major network was describ¬
ing a drilling operation on the Moon. The astronauts, al¬
though armed with drills that could go through just about
anything, were having extreme difficulty penetrating even
a few inches of lunar crust. Only after great effort did
they drill into the maria surface and with even greater
exertion extract this drill. It took prodigious efforts of
both astronauts tugging at the drill, but when they finally
succeeded in pulling the drill out, this young man in¬
sisted, the television commentator exclaimed: “Look at
that drill, it’s encrusted with metal shavings.”

I anxiously awaited the tapes, but finally he told me that
they were not available. He claimed his kid brother had
mistakenly taped over the invaluable Apollo legacy to get
some of his favorite rock hits on tape.

Is there anything to the story? We don’t know. But if it
can be proven that this alleged account is true, this one
item could break the whole Moon cover-up wide open.
This is the kind of evidence that also could crack the
mystery of the Moon wide open.

If any reader has knowledge of this or any other mystify¬
ing happening in regard to the Moon or the space program,
I will be more than glad to hear from you and correspond
with you about your discovery.

I would like to steer away from anything of a religious
nature. One goodhearted soul offered to give me the spiri¬
tual secrets of the universe, including the Moon, that she
claimed she got directly from God.

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Another related this strange Biblical coincidence: The
initial letters of the names of the first three men on Earth
(Adam, Abel, and Cain) are the same as those of the
astronauts who made the first landing trip to the Moon
(Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, although the latter never
walked on the Moon but stayed in orbit).

HEAVENLY MUSIC?

Along those same lines but more to my liking was the
story related to me that our astronauts while on the way
to the Moon actually heard strange music over their closed
radio communication system. This party maintains that the
cabin of the space capsule was filled with beautiful haunt¬
ing music that seemed to come from out of nowhere.
Later the “heavenly” music was identified. It was an old
Earth-produced piece: “Where Angels Fear to Tread.”

VOICES ON THE MOON?

A lady from California related that a well-known French
author Robert Charroux in his book Our Mysterious Past
points out that “mysterious words [were] heard on the
moon.”

Charroux claims that a famous French science journalist
reported that while A1 Worden was walking on the Moon
(Apollo 15) mysterious words mystifyingly interrupted the
CAPCOM (Mission Control) communications network.
Apparently, according to Charroux, it was written up
widely in the French press, although I have never seen
any reference to this incident in the American press. The
French broadcasting network ORTF also carried stories
about this strange happening, Charroux maintains.

Charroux also claims that the French weekly Le Meilleur
(edition 33, page 1) published an article seven columns
long, headed “Why Has No One Spoken of the Mysterious
Message Heard on the Moon?” They tantalized their read¬
ers with this subtitle: “Twenty Untranslatable Words Which
Really Sowed the Seeds of Panic?”

“Perhaps this proves that other men exist—something

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NASA wished to hide,” concludes the French journal.

What were the words the astronauts were supposed to
have heard? On August 3, 1971, at exactly 11:00 a.m.
without explanation the normal space radio communica¬
tions faded strangely away and contact with Houston Mis¬
sion Control was lost.

Worden then noticed strange sounds coming through his
receiver—a weird breathing sound which gradually changed
into a kind of' whistle. After “stifled murmurs,” vague
sounds resembling words came through—then a string of
words—“like a sentence constantly repeated on one note.”

It is claimed that the transmissions were recorded on
the lunar module’s tape recorder and Worden transmitted
them to NASA authorities.

The entire affair was purportedly suppressed and a news
blackout apparently was effective in this country as well
as throughout the rest of the world. Charroux insists that
the story in Le Meilleur is accurate and that “a conspiracy
forbade the divulgence of the ‘moon sentence.’ ” He then
divulges the “forbidden sentence”—which no one yet has
been able to translate.

His text is not too clear on this point but apparently
Charroux who claims he himself heard the message given
over French radio included two Hebrew words,

“We thought we had remembered two words from the
text: ‘Lamina’—and ‘rabbi.’ ” Charroux points out that a
similar word, “lama” was used by Jesus while he lay dying
on the Cross (ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHANI—My God,
My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?). Apparently, how¬
ever, there were some misgivings that this word was actu¬
ally heard. For he quickly adds: “It is possible we mis¬
heard the first word of the sentence which could be ‘mara*
and not ‘lama.* ”

So the message as Charroux remembers it is:

“MARA [OR LAMA] RABBI ALLARDI DINI EN-
DAVOUR ESA COUNS ALIM.”

Although Charroux claims some of the words might be
of Hebrew origin he admits all the others seem to be of
“uncertain origin.”

In fact, from his entire account we can conclude every¬
thing is “uncertain.” Not only uncertain in content and

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unknown in meaning but uncertain in authenticity and un¬
known in import. No authentication for this event has ever,
to our knowledge, been forthcoming. This is not to say it
did not happen. It might have. If anyone has any further
information on this we would be happy to hear from you.

Charroux concludes with his usual candor: “Perhaps
some philosophers will find the key to the puzzle.”

Perhaps our readers will find the answer. Or similar ma¬
terial—hopefully better authenticated—which they will re¬
lay to us that we may work a little harder in cracking open
the mystery of our Moon.

For it appears that it is not going to be done by orthodox
scientists. Nor will the space agency change its policies
without our help. They have probably garnered sufficient
evidence, but as we suspect, they are keeping it under
wraps.

It will take the efforts of people like you—open-minded
searchers for the truth—to find the truth whatever it
might be.

The fact is that sufficient public clamor or some dra¬
matic discovery might not only break open this cosmic
Watergate, exposing the greatest cover-up of all time, but
might lead to a reopening of our investigation of the Moon
again and possibly even future lunar probes.

Shortly after Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon was pub¬
lished the author was interviewed on a radio station to¬
gether with an astronomer of a well-known Midwestern
observatory. He agreed, surprisingly, that the Soviet theory
—which he did not accept for lack of sufficient evidence—
could possibly be correct, that the Moon indeed could be
a spaceship. He admitted freely that, strangely enough, the
dozen mysteries delineated by the book did disappear in
light of this bizarre theory. He told me after the radio
interview: “Wouldn’t it be remarkable if your book arouses
the American public enough to cause the Moon-explora¬
tion missions to be resumed?”

“That would be great,” I told him. But realistically, of
course, this is not going to happen. Undoubtedly man will
go back to the Moon someday and when he does there are
a number of fascinating and probably eye opening areas
that would be worth visiting. Or should we say “revisiting,”

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since with the space program’s secrecy we cannot be sure
whether or not our astronauts and unmanned space probes
have not already checked them out.

In Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon we listed a dozen
“mystery spots” on the Moon worth visiting. One of them
was the strange 12-mile bridge sighted over the Sea of
Crisis back in the fifties (see Chapter 2). Dr. Farouk El
Baz was quoted in a national magazine as stating that our
space agency did carry out secret investigations of the
Moon, and this included this strange artificial-looking
bridge on the Sea of Crisis.* In similar fashion we went
through other intriguing “mystery spots.” Here are a half
dozen more which might produce discoveries that could
definitely prove the Moon is a spaceship.

PYRAMIDS ON THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY?

First and foremost, the strange pyramidal, obelisklike
structures that appear to be artificial and which Soviet space
engineer Alexander Abramov claims are positioned exactly
like the major pyramids around Giza near Cairo, Egypt.
These have probably been closely examined by NASA,
since our astronauts went to the very same Sea of Tran¬
quility on our first trip to the Moon, only the results have
never been released and probably never will be unless
enough public pressure can be applied on our government.

A SPACE ODYSSEY MONOLITH?

Secondly, the site of the Soviet-discovered monolith,
that mysterious rectangular block of stone that appears
strangely enough to be like the monolith of 2001: A Space
Odyssey, Arthur Clarke’s famous book and movie. (See
Chapter 17.)

Thirdly, the inside of “Rangef 9 Crater . The controversial
“Ranger 7 Crater” would be a good place to concentrate

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*NASA claims that photos of the area where the purported bridge
was spotted showed nothing unusual.

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our Moon look, this time without the veil of secrecy cover¬
ing up our findings.

The first phase of our Moon exploration the Ranger
series returned thousands of photos of the Moon’s surface
—close-up pictures that revealed a great deal about the
surface of this strange satellite. One of these taken by
Ranger 7 just before it smashed into the Moon has pro¬
duced a storm of controversy. The photo was taken about
three miles on the last leg of its crash dive and appears to
show some objects inside a crater. NASA officials claim
they are just “a cluster of rocks.” Other investigators are
not so sure.

No one knows for sure but some investigators like Riley
Crabb of the Borderland Science Research Organization
claims that their circular symmetry indicates that whatever
they are, certainly they are “intelligently constructed.”

Crabb believes that this conclusion is “confirmed by the
sharp, straight black shadow cast” by one of two “brilliant
white shafts” inside the crater. He points out that this
August 10, 1964, photo published in Missiles and Rockets
magazine (p. 22), shows “clearly outlined in between the
bases of the two shafts a perfect circle, perhaps 40 or 50
feet across. The hole itself is pitch black, as though it led
into the interior of the moon; but the edges are bright, like
the edges of a gigantic bubble or lens.”

Crabb goes on to explain: “As we looked at the Missiles
and Rockets reproduction of the Ranger photo we became
aware of two more perfect black holes in the crater, one to
the left of the left-hand shaft, and one in the top of the
little cone to the south of the shafts . . .” He concludes:
“You can be sure that military and civilian photo analysis
have devoted hundreds of hours to this particular ‘rock’
formation, but in view of the continuing ‘silence policy’ on
Flying Saucers such technical analyses will be classified
secret for years to come.” (Journal of Borderland Research ,
November-December 1964.)

Some see in this photo UFOs sitting inside this mys¬
terious crater. One such investigator is George Leonard,
an amateur astronomer who claims that through an ex-
NASA scientist friend of his he got to look at a composite
photo of several Ranger 7 pictures, that proves this is pre-

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cisely what they are. This photo, says Leonard, put to¬
gether by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California, shows
a large object in the crater with a “dull metallic finish.”
The object is “smoothly rounded, symmetrical, and has
what appears to be a turret-shaped protuberance, which is
also remarkable for its perfection.”

Asks Leonard, with an obvious eye on UFOs: “What
looks like that?”

He also is convinced that on its gleaming back he can
discern a strange marking that looks something like an
English letter Y with a line beneath it. He says a study of
the world’s alphabets indicates that it is very much like the
ancient Semitic Z found on the famous ancient Moabite
Stone.

If there is any validity to Leonard’s conclusion its impli¬
cations are staggering. This remarkable investigator is con¬
vinced that whoever is on the Moon was intrinsically in¬
volved in mankind’s past.

“They’ve watched us develop since at least the Bronze
Age. They’ve had a catbird seat on all our wars and petti¬
nesses. They’ve architected and built big things here and
left signs all over our Earth.” So Leonard concludes.

Without hesitation Leonard in his intriguing book Some¬
body Else Is On the Moon speculates: “The Moon is a
logical seat for all the UFOs skipping around the fringes
of our cultures since the dawn of time.” And in Ranger 7
photos he believes he has found evidence of such lunar
UFOs, or at least of constructions on the Moon.

Surely here is a mystery spot worth taking another close
look atl

THE STRANGE TUNNEL ON THE MOON

Another oddity of the Moon—and there are many—is
a strange tunnel about 20 miles long which is lined with
walls of glass!

Dr. H. H. Ninineer, director of the American Meteorite
Museum in Winslow, Arizona, announced this discovery
back in 1952. He claims that through a good telescope not
only can the tunnel be seen but the entrance and the exits
of that tunnel are clearly discernible.

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Located on the western part of the Moon in the Sea of
Fecundity are two unusual craters Messier and W. H.
Pickering. These two strange craters are very close together
but they differ greatly from other lunar craters in that the
rim or lip of each crater is “noticeably extended in the same
direction.” (Science Digest, November 1952.)

Dr. Nininger points out that the tunnel starts here with
these two weird-looking formations, one the entrance and
the other the exit. They are on the opposite sides of a
towering mountain ridge, which is several thousand feet
high and 15 to 20 miles wide.

The shape of the respective holes or entrances suggests
that the same force has created a tunnel through this
mountain.

Is this an artificial construction on the Moon? Dr.
Nininger suggests that it was created by a “meteorite.”
This magical meteor “moving 20 to 30 miles per second
would vaporize the powdery dust on contact,” melting
instantaneously and cooling quickly, thus forming a glazed
tunnel.

It might seem impossible that any meteor or meteorite
would do this which most scientists claim would explode
on contact since even at the slow speed Nininger assigns
to this slow-moving meteor it would still be travelling at
72,000 miles per hour! How could it then perform this
miraculous construction job?

Another serious problem is that it is difficult to com¬
prehend how it could travel horizontally to perform its
tunneling job. But Nininger believes that a large meteorite
could sweep low enough, skimming the Moon’s surface,
tunneling its way through solid rock mountain, dropping
from the skies hitting and then ricocheting through this
hard submantle, burning its way through, and leaving in
its miraculous wake enormous holes that now “mark its
entrance and exit.” (Science Digest, November 1952.)

This unnatural explanation does not convince us that this
is a natural construction. It sounds like a science fiction ac¬
count if there ever was one. We are convinced that if and
when we return to the Moon, as man someday in the future
most assuredly shall, this mysterious tunnel would certainly
be worth investigating. Who knows what it may lead

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us into? Perhaps final proof that indeed an alien world
does exist under this natural rock.

THE MYSTERIOUS OPENING
OR HOLE IN THE MOON

If we really wanted to get at the heart of the matter,
there are the strange “plugholes,” huge round openings
which Dr. H. P. Wilkins of the British Astronomical As¬
sociation is convinced may connect with extensive inner hol¬
lows of the Moon’s cavernous interior. Are such connecting
holes the passageways for aliens coming into and out of
their hollow Spaceship Moon?

Wilkins claims that he discovered one such huge hole us¬
ing one of the most powerful telescopes in Europe. He
dubs it the “Washbowl,” since it looks like one. This huge
round opening into the Moon is located in Crater Cassini A
and is over two football fields across.

In his intriguing book Our Moon , Dr. Wilkins gives us
this remarkable description of this “hole” in the Moon:
“Its inside is as smooth as glass with a deep pit , or plughole
about 200 yards across , at the center (Emphasis added.)

An opening like the mouth of a bottle certainly gives the
appearance of being constructed. What startling discovery
could be made here? Could this be one of the openings to
the inner world of this Spaceship Moon?

THE PUZZLING STRAIGHT WALL

Earlier we mentioned another feature of the Moon which
many astronomers in past centuries just assumed was an
artificial construction—a straight wall, a ridge over sixty
miles long which was so strangely straight it was nick¬
named “The Railway.” The Soviet scientists who formulated
the spaceship theory of the Moon speculated that it might
have been caused when the inner metal shell was ruptured.
Thus, a huge armor plate inside the Moon, bending under
the impact perhaps of a huge celestial torpedo, might have

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raised this straight, unnatural fault line of rock, pushing
it outward.

The edges do present a steep rock cliff which rises from
the surface of the Moon in a steady climb for over 1200
feet at about a sharp 45-degree angle. The area around
it shows the ghost of a huge crater that may have crashed
here eons ago. Intriguingly, all around are strange large,
whitish domes.

Speculating on a mystery spot such as this can cause the
imagination to soar. The author wrote a science-fiction
novel (no, not this one!) depicting what the Moon would
be like just after the turn of the twenty-first century, at a
time when man had built three cities on it. Near this
Straight Wall that the Soviet scientists think may have been
caused by pushing up of the Moon’s metallic armor plates,
resulting in this unnatural, artificial-looking cliff of rock,
astronauts land for a firsthand investigation. During blast¬
ing at the base of this strange Straight Wall structure, rocks
fell away, revealing a metallic-beam construction under¬
neath!

Soon thereafter, two of the astronauts fall through one
of the openings here into the inner cavernous hollows of the
Moon. A rescue mission discovers the shocking inside-out
world of Spaceship Moon—its alien-looking cities and
amazing centers of unimaginable construction. For these
astronauts entering Spaceship Moon was like taking a
journey into the future, I depicted this alien inside-out
world of the inner Spaceship Moon as much like the Space¬
ship moon conceived by scientist-engineer Dandridge Cole
in his book Islands in Space .

Man shall probably never get the opportunity to journey
to this intriguing inner alien world of the Moon. But on
the back side of the Moon, strangely enough, nearly direct¬
ly opposite the Straight Wall is a huge crack 150 miles long
and at places more than 5 miles wide!

If the Moon does have that inner metallic rock shell be¬
neath its outer crust this vast opening could be very re¬
vealing. The position of this crack intrigues us into this
speculation: could the gargantuan crack be related in
formation to the Straight Wall? But this question is theoret¬
ical. The practical significance of the great crack in the

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Moon is that it might be a great crack in the veil of rock
enshrouding the hull of our Spaceship Moon.

Some of us believe the contours of an amazingly com¬
plex intelligent life beyond the Earth can already be
discerned .

— Dr . Jacques Vallee

SIXTEEN __

IS NASA HIDING THE REAL MOON FROM YOU?

The question has been asked time and again by the average
taxpaying American citizen: Why did man go to the Moon?
If you talk to scientists they will give you all kinds of dif¬
ferent reasons. One of the most unusual answers ever to
come from the scientific world was elicited from Dr. Marcus
Langseth, a NASA geologist who hails from Columbia
University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Dr.
Langseth is convinced that “going to the moon is an im¬
pulse ingrained in the natural character, as though Amer¬
icans were astronautical lemmings. This vague feeling that
the moon is pulling more toward it than just the tides is at
the root of a great deal of NASA thinking,” says this lunar
expert. (Henry Cooper’s Apollo on the Moon,)

You the reader, now having waded this far into the book,
undoubtedly sense there were many more vital reasons that
forced man into going to the Moon than just this fatalistic
feeling that pervaded NASA scientists in Dr. Langseth’s
view.

The reader who has stayed with us this far and fought
his way through the weighty, impressive evidence that in¬
dicates clearly that the Moon is a spaceship has been treated
to some shocking revelations of our space program’s dis¬
coveries about this strange world in our skies. Discoveries
that you undoubtedly found fascinating and perhaps to
some extent frightening. Moreover, revelations that you
probably found disturbing. For the question of questions
that undoubtedly arises again and again in your mind, if
findings as staggering as those revealed in this book were
made, if discoveries as shocking as these were made by our

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scientists, how come our space agency did not release this
information to the media? Why were such fantastic dis¬
coveries with such staggering implications for man and his
world buried or at the very least covered up?

Without a doubt some were. At the very outset of this
book we showed how our space agency, contrary to its
avowed public policy of openness, has, in fact, followed the
path of secrecy and cover-up in many phases of its opera¬
tions.

We showed incontrovertible evidence that NASA is hid¬
ing the fact that UFOs were seen by astronauts. That
strange Unidentified Flying Objects were encountered by
our astronauts in outer space can be proven by anyone
who open-mindedly reviews the logs of the astronaut-mis¬
sion control conversations.

Furthermore, if the tapes are not enough, we have the
evidence and testimony of Dr. James Harder of the Uni¬
versity of California, who maintains that after making this
tape discovery himself he confronted NASA officials with
this evidence and they privately admitted to him that our
astronauts did in fact see UFOs on a number of Moon
flights.

They also admitted that the government space agency
covered up these sightings because of, as they put it, “fear
of public panic.”

The question now arises, could not our space agency and
other governmental agencies be hiding the truth from the
people about the Moon—again for “fear of public panic”?

Is it possible that the truth about our Moon’s actually
being a spaceship was surmised by both the U.S. and the
U.S.S.R.—that they suspected the truth about the Moon be¬
fore we began our lunar expeditions, and that the rush to
get to the Moon was impelled by this mind-boggling knowl¬
edge? Was this the great impetus behind the expensive crash
Moon programs?

Admittedly, this is only speculation, but we do know that
our government space agency knew of studies that indi¬
cated that something was going on up there on our Moon—
hundreds of unexplainable moving lights and objects, re¬
ported constructions, and unexplainable changes taking
place on the surface of this strange, supposedly dead world.

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Why did our government carry out and privately publish
such a study? What did our space experts conclude about
all this seeming UFO activity taking place on the Moon?
Why did NASA itself commission Project Moon Blink, a
program to search for lunar “events” which was carried
out in cooperation with observatories around the world?
Undoubtedly our space experts were looking for some¬
thing. And at a time when our government and its military
arms were busy trying to explain away or cover up the ever-
increasing flood of flying saucers, it appears that possibly
UFOs were using the Moon as a base of operations.

In addition, we now know that before we went to the
Moon several studies, including a motion study of the
Moon, did indicate that it could be hollow. Scientists in
general agree that there is no such thing as a naturally
hollow Moon; that if it is hollow then it was hollowed out
artificially. Could not a few of our top scientists and gov¬
ernment officials (also primarily military) not come to the
conclusion that indeed it might be, which would mean that
the Moon has to be a spaceship? And this knowledge
further was a driving force behind the thrust to get to our
Moon and check out this strange world once and for all.

Thus it would appear that, given these facts, there was
much more behind the crash Moon program than our space
agency or our government would have us ordinary citizens
believe—certainly much more than a propaganda race with
the Russians to get to the Moon first. Most Americans ap¬
peared to buy this story.

Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA’s Association Adminis¬
trator for Manned Space Flight summed up some of these
“reasons why” that lay behind the space program in a state¬
ment to Congress which he made back at the outset of our
lunar program:

“To the scientific world, there is great interest in the
origin and history of the moon and its relation to Earth
and to the solar system. Was it formed with the Earth,
or captured later? Are there clues to the origin of life?
To quote the President’s Science Advisory Committee,
‘Answers to these questions may profoundly affect our view
of the evolution of the solar system and its place, as well
as man’s in the larger scheme of things.' ”

Admittedly, this is true—the Moon may well, in fact,

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affect man’s entire outlook on his own origins and destiny!
But were the feeble reasons he offered or even the sup¬
posed propaganda race with the Soviets the only reasons
that lay behind our $25,000,000,000 effort to get to the
Moon?

Not surprisingly another independent researcher also be¬
came intrigued by the Moon. He found revealing NASA
photos and informed by an ex-NASA scientist willing to
talk arrived at the same conclusion as we did. George
Leonard in his mind-boggling book Somebody Else Is On
the Moon states this thesis boldly: ‘‘The prime reason for
the United States’ launching an expensive Moon program
was the recognition at official levels that the Moon is oc¬
cupied by intelligent extraterrestrials who have a mission
which does not include dialogue with us and may even be
inimical to our long-range welfare.”

Although we would agree with Mr. Leonard’s overall
conclusion, we are convinced from our own study of the
moon that these lunar beings, who every evidence indicates
have been around for thousands of years are in no way
inimical to mankind. However we wholly agree with this
conclusion of Leonard’s that the U.S. and Soviet govern¬
ments began Moon exploration because they were tipped
off by their own scientific studies indicating that the Moon
was more than just a natural satellite.

One problem arises even if we are to assume that all
this is true. It may be understandable for the secretive
Soviet government to keep all this under wraps, but with our
open, aboveboard, democratic government, how is this
possible? This is just like all the other secret maneuvers
and escapades that Washington has pulled off, be it FBI
or CIA that there is much that is secret within Washington’s
bureaucratic halls, as the past decade has proven. And
there is every evidence also that secrecy swirls around our
lunar program.

But again the question arises: Why?

Can you imagine what panic would ensue if the govern¬
ment were to acknowledge that UFOs stream into our
skies every day? (Some, like Dr. J. Allen Hynek, astron¬
omer at Northwestern University and.former Air Force
consultant on UFOs for twenty years maintain they num¬
ber as many as six or seven every day!) Can you imagine

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the additional shock given to the public, if they were in¬
formed that aliens are using the Moon as a base of op¬
erations and have been for a long time?

And beyond that, can you imagine the shock of a stun¬
ning official announcement that the Moon is really a space¬
ship? What if the President of the United States were to
get on television and announce to everyone that we now
know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Moon that cir¬
cles our Earth is not a completely natural world but a huge
hollowed-out planetoid steered into orbit around our world?
Furthermore, that we now know that the Moon is inhabited,
something our experts have suspected for decades?

Can you imagine the impact of such a shocking an¬
nouncement on the world? The stock market would prob¬
ably immediately crash. People might panic, perhaps even
into a rash of suicides. An epidemic of disorder and chaos
could sweep the country and the planet. The way people
were agitated and alarmed by a radio program back in
1938 might be indicative of what would happen. Perhaps.
But we doubt it. Despite all the U.S. governmental and
scientific pronouncements to the contrary, official conclu¬
sions of university studies sponsored by the U.S. govern¬
ment show that the majority of people today—and the
educated majority—are convinced that UFOs exist. Why,
15 million Americans are convinced they have seen a
UFO!

So we doubt very much if people would panic. They, in
our opinion, are ready for the truth—whatever it might
be. As evidence that people nan “live with it,” we cite
the fact that the human race lives every day under the
shadow of the nuclear nemesis and there is no panic. And
what about those millions who stay in California despite
the threat from the best scientific sources that a devastating
earthquake could rock and destroy their beautiful state to¬
morrow? They could panic and leave, but few have done
so. So too we are convinced with the Moon. If the peo¬
ple were given the truth they perhaps would even welcome
it, along with any alien “Moon beings” that might come
down here and take over, as some science-fiction writers
imagine. After all, they couldn’t make much more of a

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mess of this Earth than our present leaders have already
done, could they?

Seriously, we are convinced that we have on our hands a
cover-up of cosmic proportions. A cosmic Watergate whose
lid hides not just earthly indiscretions or corruption on
the part of governmental officials and politicians, but a
cover-up with Earth-shaking dimension and implications.

And this, as we have noted, is not just our conclusion
but that of several leading investigators. Consider George
Leonard’s testimony. This professional writer who former¬
ly held a number of federal posts in various governmental
agencies as well as being an amateur astronomer, did a close
study of the NASA photos—those that he could get his hands
on—and came to the conclusion that the Moon gives clear
evidence "of artificial constructions. Further, he is con¬
vinced that the Moon is occupied by alien intelligence, and
that NASA knows this but is carrying on what he calls
Operation Cover-up.

Leonard was aided in his history-making search for the
truth by a pseudonymous ex-NASA scientist, a man who
one critic of his book Somebody Else Is On the Moon
actually calls Leonard’s “Deep Throat.” This enterprising
researcher and reporter had other contacts in the inner
sanctum of our space agency, who have helped him expose
the tip of this cosmic iceberg.

The conclusion of Leonard’s government-shaking study:
“The Moon is occupied by an intelligent race or races which
probably moved in from outside the solar system. The
Moon is firmly in the possession of these occupants. Evi¬
dence of Their presence is everywhere: on the surface, on
the near side and the hidden side, in the craters, on the maria,
and in the highlands. They are changing its face . Suspicion
or recogntion of that triggered the U.S . and Soviet Moon
programs —which may not really be so much a race as a
desperate cooperation.” (Emphasis added.)

But it might be objected that it is hard to conceive that
the Russians and the United States have been cooperating
in this secret venture in space. Isn’t it interesting that, pur¬
portedly just to show goodwill, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
carried out a 250-million dollar rendezvous in outer space
(Apollo-Soyuz)? We know that such a link-up of American

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and Soviet space hardware required that they be made
compatible with each other. Was such unusual cooperation
in the paramilitary-space domain not an indication of a
deeper hidden motive, possibly of future necessary coopera¬
tion in space that the knowledge of extraterrestrials out
there watching us might impel?

Other hints of this space and lunar cooperation come
readily to mind. Anyone who has researched the lunar space
results becomes aware we have been exchanging informa¬
tion and data freely back and forth. That we would be so
generous as to turn over our findings to them is under¬
standable given the Santa Claus nature of our free-enter-
prise system and our generous U.S. government. But that
the tight-fisted, secretive Communists are cooperating is
interesting. Yet documents like NASA’s Apollo 17 report
contains references to such Soviet data and information
which indicate that they have done just this—handed over
vital information to us.

There is even more evidence. George Leonard notes that
“a careful review of total U.S. and Russian space shots
seems to indicate that a parceling out of responsibility has
existed from the start.” (Somebody Else Is On the Moon.)

Note this: “From the start.” This goes way back to the
late fifties, when we were still locked in the throes of the
Cold War—long before the Nixon-Kissinger detente moves
began. Intriguing.

Even more intriguing is the alleged meeting that George
Leonard claims his ex-NASA contact told him took place
in Europe in the spring of 1975. His source told Leonard
that the advanced industrialized countries of the world met
at that time. “The meeting was in England. They wanted
to talk on the quiet about extraterrestrials and what they’re
up to. A lot of people at the top are scared.”

Further, this ex-NASA scientist told Leonard: “They in¬
vited a physicist from Colorado, a man named Joachim
Kuetner, who’d worked on the Moon program and knows
what’s up there. He could tell them about it first-hand. I
don’t know exactly what they talked about. But you can
bet they know now that it’s not Earth people’s Moon any-

more—if it ever was. It belongs to Them.” (Somebody
Else Is On the Moon.)

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The implication here, of course, is that the Moon has
been inhabited since the dawn of man. Leonard’s source
also told him that a number of top-level scientists inside
and outside NASA are convinced that the Moon is actually
a huge hollo wed-out spaceship.

HOW MUCH DOES NASA KNOW ABOUT
OUR SPACESHIP MOON?

George Leonard, whose research concentrated on activ¬
ities and developments of alien beings on the outside of
the Moon while we tried “to get beneath the surface of
things,” as he himself put it, makes an interesting obser¬
vation concerning this vital question: “These data [that
he himself garnered] have clearly shown up in a limited
number of pictures made available by NASA, following a
limited amount of study and research performed primarily
by one person. What would a really systematic search of
the Moon’s surface produce? How far has NASA gone?”
(Emphasis added.)

We echo Leonard’s thoughts, for our work is the result
of a limited amount of research, and if we alone, without
ready access to the information uncovered by NASA and
the Soviet space programs, uncovered this much startling
information about our Spaceship Moon, what do NASA
and the Soviet agencies, with all the data, all the evidence,
and all the information garnered by their top scientists and
engineers, know about our Moon?

Would not those revelations stagger the world if these
findings were ever published? Would not we then have the
final compelling proof that the world circling us is truly
a spaceship—and an inhabited one at thatl

*

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Not for nothing did Santayana once contend that life
is a movement from the forgotten into the unex¬
pected ,.

—Loren Eiseley

SEVENTEEN _

ANCIENT ACCOUNTS OF A WORLD
INSIDE THE MOON!

Many gifted geniuses in the history of mankind seemed
to have had the ability to see exciting facts of life and our
universe that no person up to their time knew about* The
great English poet Shelley, for instance, described the
Moon in startlingly modern terms. He wrote that our satel¬
lite was once an orb “wandering companionless” through
the cosmos “among the stars that have different birth.”

This startling revelation comes in his poem “To the
Moon,” in the second stanza:

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing and gazing on the earth,

Wandering companionless

Among the stars that have different birth . ..

Exactly what the last international lunar conference
concluded.

The question that should haunt every thinking mind:
How could Shelley have possibly known this? Did he gain
this insight intuitively or is it simply a good poetic guess?

It would seem that Shelley, who was steeped in the writ¬
ings of ancient classics gained his knowledge from them.
For Shelley is not alone in possessing startling insights into
the truth of our satellite. Somehow many great men of
ancient times guessed the truth about our Moon. There is
even an entire host of ancient writers .who insist that the
Moon is a hollow world inhabited by living beings I

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In fact, ancient writings are so filled with this startling
reference that in 1644 an English bishop, John Wilkins,
who was himself steeped in ancient classics wrote a book,
appropriately entitled Discovery of a New World, in which
he insisted there was a world of living beings inside our
Moon! The good bishop (brother-in-law of the famous
Oliver Cromwell of English history) did not arrive at this
conclusion from the meager scientific evidence of his time
but from innumerable references in the ancient works in
which he was widely read. As a scholar of these works
(mostly Greek and Latin), he had come across references
time and again to the fact that our Moon was a hollow,
inhabited world.

Finally, overwhelmingly convinced that these great an¬
cient thinkers knew what they were talking about, the good
bishop decided to collect together this evidence in a book.
He came to the conclusion that the Moon was indeed not
a solid orb. For as he says in his introduction: “If there
be a habitable world in the moon (which I now affirm) it
must follow that her orb is not solid as Aristotle supposes.”

Who does Wilkins cite as possessing this esoteric knowl¬
edge? For one Xenophanes, renowned student of Socrates,
who, as he put it, “conceived the moon to be a great hollow
body, in the midst of the whole concavity, there should
be another globe of sea and land, inhabited by men as our
earth.”

Fantastic? Hold onto your exclamations! This is just the
beginning.

THE GREAT REVELATION OF ORPHEUS

Perhaps the most astounding quote that Bishop Wilkins
makes comes from the great Orpheus, one of the most
ancient of Greek poets, who, interestingly, some claim was
the son of the Greek god Apollo, after whom the entire
manned Moon landing and exploration program was
named!

This god (whom many modern historical scholars, as
we shall see later in this chapter, now consider might have
been a real person, and who Aeschylus, the father of Greek
drama, tells us could “calm the seas”) purportedly was the

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author of the ancient Orphic hymns, in which he is thought
to have transmitted much knowledge, much of it accurate
pieces of information, especially in the field of astronomy,
that turn out to be astounding. His other revelations are
equally so.

Speaking about the Moon, Orpheus, the Greek god of
wisdom and father of the wondrous Greek culture, tells
mankind “that it hath many mountains, and cities and
houses in it. ... To him assented Anaxorgas, Democritus
and Heraclitus . , . All who thought it to have firm solid
Ground, like our Earth, containing in it many large fields ,
champion grounds and divine inhabitants! This belief of
Orpheus was related by Plutarch, Diogenes and Laertius.”
So relates Bishop Wilkins. (Emphasis added.)

In light of the Spaceship Moon theory, utterly as¬
tounding!

Before we get to some other startling insights revealed
by Orpheus “the Moonman,” as he was called, let us con¬
sider his background. Appropriately, as we have seen,
the entire Moon landing program and its individual space
expeditions have been named after his father, one of the
greatest gods of antiquity. A few scholars claim that
Apollo, who was the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of
the Moon, was in actual fact an ancient astronaut.

Could it be possible that this god of prophecy, who held
sway at the temple of Delphi, this god of poetry, healing,
and light, and his enigmatic son and all the other gods who
lived on Mount Olympus were actually alien beings from
beyond this planet? Of course, there is no way of proving
this intriguing speculation, and without proof it is ridiculous
to consider it, as some sensationalistic writers do, “absolute
fact.”

But we do know that the Orphic hymns, which ancient
tradition tells us this Greek god of wisdom authored, do
contain much startlingly advanced astronomical knowledge.
Advanced, that is, for such an ancient work.

A contemporary astronomer, C. S. Chassapis, analyzed
the Orphic hymns and came to the conclusion that the
ancient Greeks of the second millennium (2000 b.c., or
4000 years ago!) indeed did have an advanced knowledge
of astronomy. Chassapis claims that the author of these

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Orphic poems, whoever he was, knew that the seasons
were caused by Earth’s rotation around the Sun along the
ecliptic, and knew that the torrid, temperate, and frigid
zones existed on our planet.

Orpheus is generally considered to be the author of these
works* Chassapis points out that the work itself indicates
that Orpheus could figure the solstices and calculate the
equinoxes. He must have also known that Earth’s rotation
on its axis causes the apparent rotation of the Sun and the
stars.

Furthermore, Chassapis also points out that the second-
milennium Greeks used a calendar of twelve months,
which they calculated from full moon to full moon. And
they seemed to know that all phenomena are governed by
universal cosmic laws. Tradition, which tells us that Or¬
pheus revealed all this in his hymns, holds that Orpheus
is responsible for revealing the fact that the world is “egg-
shaped,” and he is given credit for being the ancient
Greeks’ source of knowledge about mountains on the
Moon I

All this is startlingly advanced knowledge for mere
backward Earthlings who supposedly just crawled out of
caves! But there is more that this “god-man” revealed to
humans which really rocks us back on our heels and makes
us wonder if indeed Orpheus, along with his father, Apollo,
and the other gods, was not a myth from the planet Earth
but a real being alien to this world—an ancient astronaut.
Orpheus also revealed to mankind that man’s nature is
dual: that he is in part of the Earth, and in part of the
heavens.

In one revealing, mind-blowing passage this Moonman,
this son of Apollo, tells us something that before the facts
were known about our Moon meant nothing—but in light
of the Spaceship Moon theory means everything. Orpheus
supposedly uttered this revealing statement about his fellow
heavenly gods: “These innumerable souls they fell [traveled]
from planet to planet, and in the abyss of space, lament
the heaven they have forgotten.”

These startling, stunning words are astounding, for they
seem to imply the existence of intelligent life on other
worlds and that advanced space beings came to our planet

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from another corner of the universe. They are particularly
revealing in light of Spaceship Moon, which he tells us is
hollow and “has many cities and divine inhabitants’* in¬
side it.

Since so many Greek gods were connected in one way or
another with the Moon, could not Orpheus be referring to
the very beings who came into orbit around the planet
Earth in this Spaceship Moon? And was not Orpheus im¬
plying that these “gods” who came from this Moon had
actually traveled great distances through space for eons?
That they longed for that corner of the cosmos from
whence they came?

Mind-boggling! We do know that one Greek myth in¬
forms us that Orpheus the Moonman was supposedly slain
by Zeus, head of the gods, “for divulging divine secrets.”
After his mortal life was over, the myth continues, Or¬
pheus returned to the Moon.

With Orpheus’ words haunting our minds, we come to
ponder anew that question of questions: Is this mere myth
or is there reality hidden here? Was Orpheus a real being
and was he not indeed revealing facts about our mysterious
Moon?

Very few scholars today, of course, would hold that
these Greek “sky-gods” were in reality spacemen—superior
beings from another planet. Such science writers, however,
as the British editor Brinsley La Poer Trench, and French
author Jean Sendy, as well as the late Otto Binder, former
NASA science researcher, do claim that they were ancient
astronauts. Obviously, no ancient Greek held this wild the¬
ory or was even aware of such a possibility. However,
unquestionably the ancient Greeks, even the greatest think¬
ers like Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras, and yes, even
Socrates, never really doubted that the “gods” existed—
that they were real beings. In fact, Pythagoras and Socrates
believed that they also received special inspiration from
these beings.

Did the alien culture bearer who spoke about the stars
and taught mankind a great deal of advanced knowledge
beyond the ken of Earthlings of that time actually exist?
The historian Will Durant holds that he “very probably
existed, though all that we know now of him bears the

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marks of myth.” (The Life of Greece, Simon & Schuster,
1966.)

The remaining quotes of the ancients that Bishop Wilkins
gives in his startling book Discovery of a New World seem
tame by comparison. But nonetheless shocking. For Wilkins
tells us that Pythagoras, the great ancient Einstein/da Vinci
of the ancient Greek world, “did affirm that the Moon is
Terrestrial and that she is inhabited as this lower world
[Earth], that those living Creatures and Plants which are
in her, exceeding any of like kind, with us in the same
Proportion, as their Days are larger than ours by 15
times.” (P. 79.)

This too is a remarkable revelation, for how could the
ancients have known that the Moon had a two-week-long
day? It is actually just about about 15 times longer than
ours. How could Pythagoras have known this? We do not
know, unless he was privy to other revelations of the “gods”
themselves. It is known that Pythagoras, considered the
founder of Greek mathematics, had spent twenty-two years
in Egypt, where he was in the inner sanctum of highly
knowledgable priests who were supposed to be privy to the
esoteric knowledge of the ancients and even of the “gods.”

Similarly, Wilkins tells us Plato agreed with Pythagoras.
As the good Bishop informs us: “To this opinion of Pythag¬
oras Plato also assented, when he considered that we may
often read in him, and his followers of another Aethera
Terra, and lunes populi, that is an Athereal Earth, and
Inhabitants of the Moon.”

Plato, like Pythagoras, spent considerable time traveling
throughout Egypt. After the death of Socrates he joined
the secret Pythagorean societies of the time and was intro¬
duced into the inner sanctum of esoteric knowledge.

Maybe this accounts for Plato’s strange philosophy of
a world of ideas and his belief that thinking is essentially
remembering and that the real world of ideas exists not on
this Earth, which is merely a “shadow world,” but else¬
where. According to Wilkins, that other “real world” was
the world of the “gods” inside the Moon!

Thinking is essentially remembering? Perhaps it refers
to remembering back to a time when, as all mythologies
relate, “the gods” came down from the heavens and freely

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communed with man. Maybe, as Leonardo da Vinci points
out, Plato was right in asserting that man knows all things
but has forgotten most.

These are admittedly strange, startling thoughts. But no
stranger than the idea behind them or the thoughts and
knowledge that generated them, the mysteries of Moon as
related by the ancients. For Bishop Wilkins, the classical
scholar, astounds us with these revelations.

Discovery of a New World, which reveals what the
ancient “gods” revealed about the Moon—that it is a hol¬
low world with cities inside of it and is indeed the home of
“gods”—however, does not deal with ancient revelations
only. Wilkins claims that some medieval thinkers in his
own time also held that the Moon was an inhabited world.
Even great scientists as Kepler, along with Copernicus, Wil¬
kins insists, held that Moon was filled with living beings.
In Kepler's case, according to Wilkins, he held it was
inhabited on the inside!

Wilkins says: “Kepler calls this world by the Name of
Levania from the Hebrew word meaning Moon and our
own Earth-revolving world by reason of its Diurnal rev¬
olution appears unto them constantly to turn Round, and
therefore he stiles (sic) them who live in that Hemisphere
which is towards us, by the title of Subvolens, meaning they
who revolve under because they enjoy the sight of this
earth.”

It might be objected that Kepler only put forth these
ideas in his science-fiction novel Somnium (The Dream).
Not according to Wilkins, for he asserts: “And Kepler did
not jest . . . indeed he protests that he did not publish
them either out of Humor or Contradiction ... or from
a desire for Vain-glory, or in a Jesting Way, to make him¬
self or others merry, but after a considerate and solemn
reason, for the discovery of the Truth!”

Wilkins also asserts that “Copernicus affirms this Hypoth¬
esis along with the great ancients Aristarchus and Philolus.”
Not only does Wilkins hold that Kepler claimed the Moon
to be inhabited, but at least one writer—former NASA
researcher Otto Binder—speculates that the space journey
to the Moon Kepler described might have actually taken
place. Or at the very least spacemen who made the trip
imparted this knowledge to Kepler.

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Why would Binder make such a preposterous claim?
Simply because the knowledge contained in that science-
fiction fantasy is “astonishingly accurate in details/’ Kep¬
ler wrote of principles of space flight that we know
today to be established fact—the shock of acceleration,
weightlessness of the body, free fall in orbit, in addition to
amazingly accurate descriptions of spacesuits that had to
be worn by crews of the spacecraft. Dr. Clifford Wilson,
noted scholar, investigated Binder’s claims that he set forth
in his book Unsolved Mysteries of the Past and claims “it
is possible that Kepler’s terminology and knowledge could
to a great extent be attributed to his own capacity and fore¬
sight as an astronomer.” How else explain such knowledge
back in the 1600 s?

Although most literary and scientific scholars would
most certainly dispute Wilkins and Binders’s interpretation
of Kepler’s book, which was really the first lunar guide¬
book, simply because it was written in a pseudo-scientific,
partially mystical manner, he did people his Moon with
strange beings who lived underground in huge caverns, the
kind of caverns that we have pointed out some scientists
speculate might exist inside the Moon.

Samuel Butler, the English poet, wrote of Kepler’s
conception:

. . . Th’ Inhabitants of the Moon,

Who when the Sun shines not at noon.

Do live in Cellars underground,

Of eight miles deep and eighty around.

What about John Wilkins, the English bishop himself?
What does he believe about the Moon? Unquestionably
his was a serious book which held the Moon to be inhabited
inside. He obviously also agrees with the great ancients
and claims that “there are high mountains, deep Vallies
and spacious plains in the body of the Moon.”

He also predicted that someday man will ferret out the
truth. “That tis probable for some posterity, to find a con¬
veyance to this world, and the Inhabitants there to have
commerce with them. Tis the Opinion of Kepler that as
soon as the art of flying is Found out, some of their

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Nation [Germany] will make one of the first colonies, that
shall Transplant into that other World.”

Wilkins’s final proposition states: “That tis probable that
there may be inhabitants in this other world but what kind
they are is uncertaine (.sic)

This statement also bears up under the latest facts.

Was Wilkins “loony”—a lunatic or crackpot? Hardly.
For, as Walter Sullivan points out in his book We Are Not
Alone , “Wilkins was one of those men of that period who
bristled with ideas.” He helped form a society of savants
which explored through discussion and speculation many of
the new exciting avenues of direction that science and
knowledge was taking at the time. These weekly meetings,
often held in Wilkins’s own quarters, included such greats
as Robert Boyle, famed for his law on the compression of

k. _ _

gases, Sir Christopher Wren, outstanding architect of St.
Paul’s Cathedral in London, and Samuel Pepys, well-known
English diarist. Even Newton joined this distinguished
group later. And that group’s name? It became in time the
famed Royal Society, which Walter Sullivan calls “one of
the most distinguished associations of scientists ever
formed.”

Nothing hut the admission of life and intelligence in¬
habiting the space around the earth-moon , binary-
planet system will provide the UFO data with a com¬
mon denominator of explanation and rationality .

—Morris Jessup

EIGHTEEN __

THE MYSTERIOUS ALIEN SATELLITE
OF OUR MOON,!

When man went to the Moon, many scientists secretly
hoped and some fully expected to find evidence that extra¬
terrestrial beings had been there before us. One such scien¬
tist who is convinced that such alien structures might be
found is the British space expert V. F. Foster: “In reality
such artifact devices may well embody the techniques and
principles of superhuman knowledge. Almost certainly, we
will soon encounter these objects on the Moon!”

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The hopes of man sometimes are translated into fantasy
writings. And as some philosopher has said “the wish is the
father of the thought”. Scientists had longed to find evi¬
dence to prove that man is not alone in the universe. It was
not surprising that the great science fiction writer Arthur
Clarke came up with a very popular book and film 2001:
A Space Odyssey which projected the discovery of such
an alien artifact—a huge monolith buried on the Moon
that emitted strong radio waves when discovered.

Now amazingly it appears that the Soviet Union’s space
probe has discovered a startlingly similar artifact. For a
UPI news report based on a Soviet government announce¬
ment claims that on February 14, 1973 a Russian remote
controlled space robot (Lunokhod 2) while probing the
Taurus Mountain region (the same region ironically where
we sent our last Apollo probe Apollo 17) discovered an
unusual monolith,' a smooth stone slab about a meter long,
which remarkably resembled the smoothly carved stone
monolith much like the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Soviet government report (announced by Tass) indi¬
cated it was like a sculptured piece of stone, “a plate . . .
(with) a smooth surface”.

The full UPI news report stated:

■

• The Lunokhod 2 moon robot parked just over a
mile from the Taurus Mountains Wednesday (Febru¬
ary 14) and probed an unusual slab of smooth rock
blasted into view by a large meteor, the Tass News
Agency said.

• This one-meter long plate has proved to be a strong
monolith. The eight-wheeled robot, which arrived on
the moon January 16, was nearly three miles from its
landing site on the Sea of Serenity.

• The plate has a smooth surface, whereas giant
stones lying nearby are pockmarked with holes of
craters left by tiny meteorites, Tass said.

If such a discovery has actually been made, it is mind-
boggling. First, Jules Verne in the nineteenth century de¬
scribed man’s first landing on the Moon and was uncannily
correct, not only on the point of departure (the coast of

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Florida about 50 miles from the actual Apollo blast off);
not only on the exact number of crewmen (three) but even
with the correct speed the rocket-like projectile had to reach
to break the bonds of earth’s gravity. Now it appears that
science fiction again has mirrored a future happening. It
almost makes one wonder whether or not someone is out
there watching us and leading us on. . ..

But, as shocking as this discovery is, another is even
more profound. It too, eerily, was predicted by Arthur
Clarke. Actually, Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey novel
was based on an earlier short story (“The Sentinel”) which
told how a similar device was purposely planted by an
intelligent race of aliens to enable them to learn about the
progress of man. And when discovered and examined by
man, it touched off a series of prearranged messages via
radio signals which were automatically sent to another
part of the universe.

This kind of automatic warning system would enable
them to monitor not only man’s presence on the Moon, but
in turn would let man know that an alien intelligence had
visited this part of the universe. According to some scien¬
tists who speculate along these lines, such a device could be
planted that could conceivably allow these distant beings
to monitor Earth broadcasts, both radio and television, and
thus enable them to keep a close watch over our progress
(or lack of it).

THE MOON HAS SUCH A SENTINEL!

Believe it or not, a similar device of this kind has been
discovered, a few scientists claim. Only it isn’t a monolith
buried in the Moon’s surface but an unmanned “probe”
robot satellite placed in orbit around the Moon thousands
of years ago.

A Scottish astronomer named Duncan Lunan claims that
he discovered such a robot satellite that was placed in orbit
around our Moon. And he insists he has even translated its
message to mankind. These startling claims were recently
published in a research paper by Lunan in Spaceflight , the
journal of the prestigious British Interplanetary Society.

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This society is an international scientific organization of
astronomers and other scientists which is headquartered in
London.,

Leonard Carter, the executive secretary of the British
Interplanetary Society, claims that Professor Lunan dis¬
covered this unusual satellite after studying “radio echoes
that have been known since the 1920’s, but couldn’t be
explained as having originated from earth.” (D. A. Lunan,
“Space Probe from Epsilon Bootis,” Spaceflight , April
1973, 15:4, pp. 122-33.)

In December 1927 a young Norwegian specialist on
electromagnetic waves, Professor Carl Stormer, learned
that some American researchers had received strangely
delayed radio signals seemingly emanating from around
the Moon. Stormer teamed with a Dutchman, Van der Pol
from the Philips Research Institute in Einhoven, and in
September 1928 began a series of experiments. They radi¬
ated radio call-signs of different lengths at 30-second
intervals.

Within three weeks they received these signals back, but
with delays from 3 to 15 seconds. The radio signals were
registered with these delay intervals (in seconds)*: 8—11—
15-3-13-8^8-12-15-13-8-8. This radio phenomenon was
received again all through February 1929. These strange
radio echoes were reported by researchers all over the
world.

On October 24, thirteen days later, and on October 28,
48 more signals were received.

In August 1929 Professor Stormer published his findings.
Almost immediately theories began to spring up trying to
explain how the delayed shortwave impulses occurred.
Could they perhaps be somehow reflected radio waves, pos¬
sibly somehow reflected back from the stars? This ridiculous
explanation was rejected along with the obvious possibility
that they were reflections from the Moon.

While scientists continued to ponder this problem, the
radio signals continued to be received through the 1930s
and into the forties.

In the early sixties Professor Robert Bracewell of the
Radio Astronomy Institute of Stanford University theorized
that the signals could be a message from alien intelligence

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in outer space. BraceweU observed that if alien beings
wanted to get in touch with us, they might use the delayed
return of signals. The radio signals with delays perhaps did
contain a message! Perhaps someone or something out
there, according to BracewelTs suggestion, was trying to
send us a message by trying to draw, as it were, a space
picture with this series of delayed radio signals. Professor
Lunan of Scotland, who was in communication with Brace-
well, took the suggestion seriously and set to work trying
to figure out this conundrum. He got hold of some of the
original echo data, although unfortunately much of it ap¬
pears to have been lost.

In 1973 the British Interplanetary Society’s publication
Spaceflight published Lunan’s claim that an artificial satel¬
lite was beaming a message via delayed radio signals to
Earth. According to the executive secretary of the learned
and respected society, Leonard Carter, they did this to give
Lunan’s unbelievable claims an airing and to stimulate
scientific work in this area.

Lunan announced in the British 'Interplanetary Society’s
journal that he was convinced that the radio signals were
emitted from an artificial satellite that was placed in orbit
around the Moon by unknown alien beings about 12,600
years ago. He claimed a computer on this satellite was
preprogrammed so that it responded to radio waves from
our planet whenever its own position in relation to our
Earth was suitable for reception. Our radio signals were
recorded by the satellite and sent back on the same wave
length, only with “intelligent delays” to communicate a
message which eventually intelligent man on the planet
Earth would recognize!

According to Carter, spokesman for the British Inter¬
planetary Society, “Lunan plotted the echoes on a graph.
Oddly they seemed to make a series of dots outlining the
[known] constellations. But they were slightly dis¬
torted. . . .” However, Lunan has gone into the question
of this distortion and alteration. And the dots related to
the constellations as they were about 13,000 years ago.

Carter then relates that Lunan became convinced from
his studies of this particular constellation that this satellite
robot was put into orbit by inhabitants of an alien planet
which orbits a sun of the star called Epsilon Bootis.

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However, Carter notes that Lunan, even after discovering
this time lag in the echoes, found that the star Epsilon
Bootis was still out of position on his graphs. Lunan also
noted that a series of dots resembled no constellation at
all, so he concluded that these really represented echoes
of various durations, and really contained a message.

Lunan’s research report indicates that computers on this
satellite robot probe transmit the message whenever they
are triggered by radio waves sent from Earth at a certain
undetermined frequency.

This robot satellite placed in orbit thousands of years
ago lay dormant, circling the Moon, until the 1920s, when
men on the planet Earth began sending radio waves into
space. This triggered the device, which has been sending
a message to mankind ever since. The Scottish astronomer
now believes he has translated the message. Here it is:

START HERE. OUR HOME IS EPSILON BOOTIS, WHICH
IS A DOUBLE STAR. WE LIVE ON THE SIXTH PLANET OF

SEVEN. CHECK THAT-THE SIXTH OF SEVEN COUNTING

OUTWARD FROM THE SUN, WHICH IS THE LARGER OF
THE TWO.

OUR SIXTH PLANET HAS ONE MOON. OUR FOURTH
PLANET HAS THREE. OUR FIRST AND THIRD PLANET
EACH HAVE ONE.

OUR PROBE IS IN THE POSITION OF ARCTURUS, KNOWN
IN OUR MAPS.

OUR PROBE IS IN THE ORBIT OF YOUR MOON.

Lunan’s work certainly is intriguing. But does his inter¬
pretation have validity? Remember, as we have noted, this
interpretation is based on the unexplained radio echoes
heard in the late twenties and early thirties, detected by
French, Dutch, and Norwegian radio researchers who at
the time were transmitting a series of telegraphic code
broadcasts. Only they received back two sets of echoes.
They noticed that it took one seventh of a second for the
return of the first echo, the exact time it would take to
bounce a radio wave off the ionosphere.

Lunan calculated that “because a second set of echoes
came back after delays of three to fifteen seconds, the
messages could have been intercepted, interpreted and then

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rebroadcast by an object of intelligence circling the Moon,”

Once it dawned on Professor Lunan that the delays
could be coded messages, he set to work and translated the
message.

In a short time Professor Lunan made his discovery. “To
my astonishment,” Lunan declares, “the dots made up a
map of an easily-recognized constellation—the Constella¬
tion Bootes in the northern sky. The curious pattern of
delayed echoes was a pattern of star positions.”

Lunan believes the alien beings who set this satellite
into orbit around the Moon were from the star Epsilon in
this constellation. This star, astronomers now know, is one
that has exhausted the reserves of hydrogen in its core and
is contracting and growing hotter. Any intelligent life on
any of these planets circling this dying star would have to
leave this solar system altogether in order to survive. If we
were in such a position and had to leave our sun, this would
be the best way to do it: Dandridge Cole and Isaac
Asimov’s conception of hollowing out a nearby asteroid
or planetoid, filling it with the necessary supplies and
accouterments of their civilization, and setting sail on a
powered, self-contained, self-recycling enclosed world away
from their dying star and into the endless oceans of space
of the outer universe.

Perhaps this is what drove the beings who built the lunar
spaceship world now in orbit around the Earth. Is there
any connection between the two? It is intriguing that Lunan
calculated that the alien beings who placed their robot
satellite into orbit around our Moon did so 12,600 years
ago. This figure is strikingly close to the figure given by
Bellamy, who calculated that the Moon came into orbit
around our Earth between 11,500 and 13,500 years ago!
(See Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon.)

Could it be that these alien beings who steered the Moon
into orbit around our planet were the same beings who left
this artificial satellite in orbit around our Moon?

Although the findings of Duncan Lunan, president of
the Scottish Association for Technology and Research in
Astronautics, have yet to be verified, their implication is
staggering. One scientist commenting on Lunan’s findings
(who claims that the chance of different radio echo delays

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forming star maps purely by coincidence would be 10,000
to 1) maintains this satellite might be a highly sophisticated
computer with an enormous store of information ready to
be imparted to mankind! He strongly believes that if this
alien space probe is confirmed, concentrated effort should
be made to “interrogate” it.

It is precisely for this reason that a group of British
scientists have begun a serious attempt that could prove
to be one of the most fateful and profound in the entire
history of mankind.

How can this be done? R. N. Bracewell of the Radio
Astronomy Institute, Stanford University, who originally
suggested that an unmanned space probe might be used by
aliens to beam a message via delayed radio waves, accord¬
ing to Lunan claimed: “If we returned the signals to it
again, it would know it had established contact with in¬
telligence. . . .”

“Should we be surprised,” Bracewell writes, “if the
beginnings of its messages were a TV image of a constel¬
lation?”

Lunan suggested that not only radio probes be used but
says “attempts might be made to contact the spacecraft
by laser probing. . . ( Spaceflight, April 1973.)

He also suggests radar attempts.

Although Lunan’s theory is far from proven, scientists
are planning to put it to the test. Anthony Lawton, a Brit¬
ish computer specialist, said an experiment will send radio
signals to try to stir the supposed satellite into another
response.

What is the opinion of other scientists connected with
this tremendous discovery? Do they believe that Lunan’s
interpretation is correct?

Professor Ronald N. Bracewell of Stanford University,
one of America’s leading radio astronomers, admits he has
been exchanging research material on this matter with
Lunan for the last few years. He does not discount Lu¬
nan’s interpretation of the radio signals, but has admitted
that he has reservations about them.

As Bracewell explains: “If he’s right in his thinking this
material did contain a message. However, Lunan’s repre¬
sentation of the dots as the constellation of 13,000 years

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ago may not he quite right. It could be simply because
this is not a message at all.”

Leonard Carter of the British Interplanetary Society
agrees with Brace well that in fact Liman’s interpretation
might not be correct. He said that his society published
Lunan’s research findings “so that any scientist with records
of the mysterious echoes can bring them to the attention
of scientists working in the field.”

Concludes Carter: “There will have to be a complete
reading of all this material to check all the echoes.”

“They [the echoes] exist in fact. When one plots them
as Lunan did, one gets a very, very curious result. It’s in
the interpretation of them that one let’s one’s hair down.
It could mean many things.”

Lunan is convinced his work has been verified. Addi¬
tional researches he has worked out have produced more
star charts based on the delayed echoes. Lunan now has
come up with six different star maps. By studying them all
together he interprets that “every one of the reference lines
points to a star called Epsilon Bootes,” which he believes is
the point of origin of this alien Moon satellite.

However, another researcher, Anthony Lawton, in his
book Ceti (Warner Books, 1976), claims that Lunan is
wrong. First of all, he believes that he has solved the puz¬
zle of “the Long Delayed Echoes of the Twenties,” insist¬
ing that they were “not received in the sequence Lunan used
them to compile his star patterns—and, in any case, many
other star systems could have been made to fit the same
sequence.” So states Lawton.*

Furthermore, Lawton claims that “they were not from
an alien probe” but that “they are a perfectly natural
phenomenon.”

Whether or not Lunan’s interpretation is correct, two

* Lawton believes that the LDEs (Long Delayed Radio Echo Sig¬
nals) are “caused by signal reflection from the upper atmosphere.”

He does admit: Some researchers might now suggest that an alien
probe could well be using the Lagrange area (around the Moon)
as an Earth-orbiting “parking lot” from where it is sending us signals.
He objects, however: “This is unlikely because the power needed
by such a probe would make it a very conspicuous object.” This
appears weak, for even given the rapid pace of technology that can
put power packs in minute packages, what could aliens millions if
not billions of years ahead of us accomplish?

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things are certain. First, that radio signals have been de¬
tected in the vicinity of the Moon by various radio research¬
ers at various times. In 1927, 1928, and 1934 a series of
mysterious signals was intercepted on the Earth. More
radio signals came through in 1935, a series of mysterious
signals intercepted on Earth by other scientists. And in 1935
scientists Van der Pol and Stormer did pick up echoing
radio signals around the Moon. They calculated that ac¬
cording to the time lag the signals seemed to be reflected
from a large object about twice the distance that Earth
is from the Moon, or about 500,000 miles away!

As this radio phenomenon continued to occur, other
scientists in the past decades narrowed the object’s position
to “an area 60 degrees behind the Moon as the lunar world
orbits the Earth. This object could be the robot satellite that
Duncan Lunan believes is emitting the strange alien mes¬
sage.” It is possible that it could even be a different
one very much like it.

Science writer Joseph Goodavage claims: “The object
trailing the Moon at twice the Earth-Moon distance has so
many peculiarities that some scientists are sure it’s artificial.
It would be impossible for a large asteroid to maintain a
relative [geocentric] velocity equal to the Moon at that dis¬
tance.” {Saga, April 1974.)

If this object is actually the Lunan satellite and his mes¬
sage is accurate, we are still left with this tremendous fact
to ponder: Epsilon Bootes, the star from which our alien
visitors purportedly came, is 103 million light-years away
—well beyond our Milky Way Galaxy!

For a cosmic spaceship to make that tremendous journey,
even at the speed of light, would require 103 million years!

As Goodavage concludes: “Nothing we know of, and
certainly no living creature or organization of entities that
we can imagine, is capable of cohesion for such a vast
period of time.” {Saga, April 1974.)

But then again, the alien beings of this Spaceship Moon
might be. Man, if we are to believe scientists of Earth, has
been on our own spaceship planet for the past few mil¬
lion years, making tediously slow progress. Now man has
taken his first feeble infant steps into space. And he has
reached the Moon.

Already some men of Earth have conceived the scheme

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of hollowing out an asteroid or planetoid and converting it
into a completely self-contained, self-recycling, self-sustain¬
ing world to journey through the cosmos to the stars, A
journey that theoretically could last millions upon millions
if not billions of years. And even if and when man’s first
self-made spaceship world should wear out or be damaged
beyond repair, he could simply lock himself into orbit
around another large asteroid or planet with a good-sized
moon (as our own Spaceship Moon tenants might have
done) and fashion it into a new world.

Perhaps this is what will happen to man someday. Per¬
haps thousands or even mere hundreds of years from now
man may find himself hurtling through the universe in a
similar spaceship, journeying through the endless reaches
of space. And, who knows, someday, somewhere, some of
man’s ancestors will be puttering around some world on
a satellite similar to that which alien beings may have left
in orbit around Earth, complete with a message to some un¬
known beings. And we might be leaving a map of our star
system for some intelligent beings to figure out

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Have we not lately in the Moon
Found a new world to the old unknown?
Discovered seas and lands Columbus
And Magellan could never compass?

—Samuel Butler

NINETEEN _

THE MOON: THE CHALLENGE
OF OUR TIMES

Shortly after the last Mercury space mission was run, NASA
received an interesting letter from a motor mechanic in
Milwaukee. It read: “I see from my newspaper today that
the Mercury program cost 2 dollars and 6 cents for every
man, woman and child in the United States of America. I
enclose a mail order for $2.06, and I’d like to see the whole
thing over again.”

We would like to see the Apollo Moon missions run
again. We would like to go back once more to take another
close look, this time with our eyes wide open and with an
open press policy for our space agency. However, this is

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unlikely to happen for a long, long time—if ever. Man
may go back someday but it is doubtful that he will for
another decade or more.

Originally ten flights to the Moon had been scheduled,
two more after the epoch-ending Apollo 17. In fact, Apollo
18 and 19 rockets were already paid for and the astronauts
trained and raring to go. Yet these last two scheduled Moon
missions were cut. Why were they slashed when, as one
science reporter tells us, “the hardware had been already
purchased”?

Supposedly many people in our country were scream¬
ing against this expensive boondoggle, which they critical¬
ly called a “Moondoggle.” So Congress purportedly slashed
the program. But the truth is that after tens of billions had
been spent the cutback itself saved only $20 million per
flight in operational costs since the rockets and space hard¬
ware to be used had been already paid for and were being
readied to go. Even critics of manned space flights like Dr.
Thomas Gold of Cornell University screamed out against
those nonsensical cuts: “It’s like buying a Rolls-Royce,”
carped Gold, “and then not driving.it because you want to
save a few bucks on the gas.”

The New York Times editorial of September 4, 1970,
lamented this regrettable decision to slash Apollo Moon
flights 18 and 19, observing that “an incredibly intricate
technology and elaborate organization built to exploit that
technology are, in effect, being abandoned . . . now that
the easily bored world audience has begun to yawn.”

Although ostensibly the move was motivated by budget
concerns, is it not possible that our space agency already
had conclusive evidence that the Moon was not only a
spaceship but a presently occupied spacecraft? Did the as¬
tronaut encounters with UFOs worry NASA officials that
another trip might bring startling encounters or revela¬
tions that might blow their cover of secrecy?

Ostensibly NASA space officials and certainly many lead¬
ing lunar scientists around the world would be eager to re¬
turn. Earth scientists have pointed out time and again that
trying to unravel the make-up of the Moon by sampling
a half dozen areas of her surface is an extremely difficult
job. As one lunar expert testified: “I would suggest that dis¬
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know about the Moon in six landings is somewhat tanta¬
mount to trying to describe what the North American con¬
tinent is by sampling it in six spots for a few hours each.”

Six manned trips to Luna have, if we are to believe
NASA, settled nothing. Their scientists freely confess: The
major questions remain. In fact, more questions, more
contradictions, more confusion now exist than before
Apollo started, some of them say. All we can be sure of is
that the Moon swirls with mysteries. This may be true, but,
as we have seen, the scientific facts indicate that she is,
as our two Soviet scientists theorize, an articially hollowed-
out planetoid steered into orbit around our water world.

The characteristics of the Moon’s make-up indicated
that even before we went up there. NASA’s Apollo data
and findings tend to prove this. Even ancient documents
and histories as well as legends and myths tell us this is the
unbelievable truth.

We also realize, however, that it could be wrong. But if
it is, it would leave us with that bundle of contradictions,
conflicts, and inexplicable mysteries, unexplainably ac¬
curate historical accounts, and, more importantly, inex¬
plicable scientific facts that would then seem to be totally
incomprehensible.

Many space critics before the Apollo program com¬
plained “Why go to the Moon?” History, however, has
proved that unexpected rewards often come from explora¬
tory endeavors. For instance, Columbus’s voyage led to the
discovery of a new world. Now it looks like our Apollo
Moon voyages have led to the discovery of a new world
that man never dreamed existed.

Columbus’s great exploration bore fruit even though he
died, criticized and unsung in prison chains, without the
great realization that he had in fact discovered a new world.

In truth, it has been said of Columbus that (1) he did
not know where he was going (which was right, since he
thought he was going to India); (2) he did not know where
he was when he got here (true again, for he thought he had
reached India and even called the natives here Indians);
(3) Columbus died never realizing where he had been!

So too with our Apollo program. Our astronauts and
astronomers never realized, in a sense, where they were go¬
ing. Everyone—except maybe a few in the inner sanctum of

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our space agency—thought we were journeying to Earth’s
natural satellite. Actually, our astronauts went to an arti¬
ficially created alien world—a spaceship in our skies that
was steered into orbit around our planet. They may have
even gone to a presently inhabited world, if we are to be¬
lieve the UFO sightings they experienced while up there.

Now it appears today that they really did not know
actually where they had been—at least if you are to believe
NASA. Will the astronauts die never realizing what kind
of a world they had really traveled to? Personally, I am con¬
vinced they already know.

MAN’S IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

The Moon at one time seemed unreachable—an impossi¬
ble dream. But man has achieved the unattainable, has
reached the unreachable, and in so doing has given a
tremendous lift to the sagging human spirit in these chaotic
times. It should be an inspiration to thinking men every¬
where to reflect what the foresight and energy of a people
determined and dedicated to a goal can accomplish. The
great space program culminated at the end of the sixties,
as President John F. Kennedy foretold, with man’s explora¬
tion of the Moon—the single greatest achievement of mod¬
ern times and without a doubt the single greatest accom¬
plishment of all time!

Now it turns out that our lunar space program may very
well also be the single greatest discovery of all time—for
it has revealed the truth about our neighboring world, a
revelation that may well lead to a better understanding not
only of our own world but even of ourselves—even of our
origin and our destiny!

Should man therefore go back and try to remove all
doubt? This, of course, is debatable. In the sixties before
man went to the Moon, Bertrand Russell wrote an article
which was published in the London Times on the eve of
the Apollo 11 Moon launch. The article was entitled “Why
Man Should Keep Away from the Moon.” For reasons Rus¬
sell never dreamed, perhaps he is right. Perhaps man’s go¬
ing to the Moon is a flirtation with undreamed-of disaster.

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But we doubt it. More probably it will lead to definite
proof of undreamed-of discovery.

A reader of my first Moon book pointed out to me that ^
well-known American psychic, David Bubar, Baptist min¬
ister and executive director of the Spiritual Outreach So¬
ciety (SOS), an organization devoted to psychic research,
predicted at the outset of our Apollo voyages that ‘‘within
the next 60 months (by 1975), we will discover that a
highly developed form of life exists in outer space and has
existed for a long time. . . . Coupled to this will be further
study of the origin of the Moon that will reveal facts so
shocking that we will think twice before venturing any
further into the deep blackness of space!” (Rene Nooriber-
ger, You Are Psychic: The Incredbile Story of David
Bubar.)

Would reopening our lunar space program open a Pan¬
dora’s box of problems? Possibly. But we hold this to be a
false presumption. First of all, if alien beings really do
exist in the Moon, they certainly do not mean us any harm.
Evidence shows they have been around a long time, as we
have seen.

NOT THE REAL MOON AFTER ALL?

The great Apollo voyages to the Moon are over. These
Moon trips were a mind-stretching leap into the cosmos. It
turned out to be a journey into the unknown—a journey to
a world of mystery that man never really understood or ex¬
pected ever to exist. Richard Lewis, that science reporter
par excellence, summed it all up so well: . . perhaps the
Moon the scientists thought they were seeing was not the
real Moon at all, perhaps they were being fooled, as the
early sixteenth-century mariners were when they believed
that Newfoundland was a promontory of the coast of
China.” ( The Voyages of Apollo .}

The strange world of our Moon, which we have so re¬
cently explored, appears to be a strange new world for man
—the strange world of our Spaceship Moon.

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your moon odyssey

Undoubtedly you the reader set out on this Moon
odyssey as a pure skeptic—as I myself did. After all,
man has been studying our satellite for centuries—if not
for thousands of years—and no scientist up until recently
has ever suggested that the Moon is anything more than a
huge natural satellite circling our Earth. Even though
some more enterprising scientists wondered about those
reports of strange moving lights and happenings taking
place on her surface, and a few even speculated that it might
harbor alien beings who are using it as a base for UFO
operations to the nearby planet Earth, no one ever sug¬
gested that the Moon itself is a UFO—a spaceship.

It is undoubtedly still difficult for you to believe. I know
it is for me. At a glance there does not appear to be any¬
thing unusual about this barren, hostile, waterless, airless
chunk of rock. However, as we have seen, the Moon is
really an invisible island world, for it gives every evidence
underneath of being a spaceship.

Frankly, I must confess at times I am overwhelmed from
the sheer mind-boggling impact of it all. I find myself ask¬
ing time and again: How can this be possibly true?

I began with rank skepticism, with a mind closed to even
the possibility. I began researching this theory to use the
Spaceship Moon idea of the Soviets as a vehicle for a
science-fiction novel. Suddenly I began to see that the facts
and findings of our lunar program actually backed and
even proved the startling, shocking artificial-Moon theory.

Then and only then, as the Apollo findings gathered
momentum and compelling evidence poured in, did I
finally grudgingly, reluctantly admit it could have validity.

Now the Moon has changed for me—as I imagine it has
for you. Now when I see the Moon in our skies I find myself
attracted by this strange magnetic mystery world. I stare
at her, contemplating how this synchronized satellite has
kept this same face gazing down on man’s world for eons—
as if she were keeping watch on our every move, as if our
Spaceship Moon were continually taking the measure of
mankind. Wondering, indeed, if she is still inhabited, as
our Apollo flights, buzzed as they were by UFOs and
plagued by strange radio signals, indicate.

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Today when I see the Moon I find myself drawn to her.
The strange luminosity of Luna is spellbinding. And the
more I dwell on this thundering discovery, the more my
own mind becomes numb by the wonderment of it all. I find
myself staring at Selene’s serene surface and wondering
what really is inside this enigmatic ball of rock and metal.

Suddenly this familiar orb which I thought I knew so
well seems so different. Its bleak, forbidding, alien-look¬
ing surface now appears arresting and awesome—as never
before. The Moon for me has become an unearthly experi¬
ence.

In the privacy of my own world of thoughts I find my¬
self continually dwelling on these staggering ideas. We still
find it hard to believe, even after all our research, after all
the impressive evidence, that our Moon has not always been
a constant companion of Earth but was once a rover in
space—an alien world whose masters and creators drove it
here across the starlit shores of vast space to lock this
spacecraft world in orbit around us.

Many readers have by now bowed before the over¬
whelming weight of scientific fact. At least, if you are not
completely convinced by the compelling evidence mar¬
shaled here, you certainly must agree you will never again
raise your eyes to the Moon in our heavens without wonder¬
ing whether or not our nearest neighbor in space is truly
a huge alien spacecraft!

I myself, who started out as a complete skeptic, have
gradually, through discovery after discovery, fact after fact
which turned out to be pieces of the puzzle that fit Space¬
ship Moon, slowly changed my mind until now I am
thoroughly convinced that the Soviet scientists are abso¬
lutely correct.

Do I ever doubt the theory? Yes, doubts do crop up
from time to time—not factual doubts but mental and
emotional misgivings. For it is still yet all so unbelievable.
Certainly I have come to reluctantly realize, after all my
researching which points unerringly to the truth of the
spaceship theory, that I am compelled to accept it. I natu¬
rally also felt the urge to tell my fellow humans about this
great discovery. At first I hesitated—and more than once.
I found I needed the courage of my convictions. I wavered,
even as Bishop John Wilkins tells us he did when he too

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discovered constant references to the “gods” coming from
inside the world of the Moon to help mankind.

This Anglican bishop, who authored Discovery of a New
World —the alien world inside our Moon—admits candidly:
“I must needs confess, that I had often thought with myself
that it was possible there might be a world in the Moon, yet
it seemed such an uncouth opinion that I have durst dis¬
covered it, for fear of being counted singular and ridiculous,
but afterward having read Plutarch, Galileo and Kepler,
with some others, I then concluded that it was not only
possible there might be, but probable that there was an¬
other habitable world in that Planet.”

Like Bishop Wilkins, I hesitated and wavered—for near¬
ly five years—before finally the facts overwhelmed me into
actual authorship of my first book, Our Mysterious Space¬
ship Moon . The very idea that the Moon is an alien-created
spaceship, the product of alien intelligence, I realize is just
on the face of it seemingly much too unbelievable to con¬
sider. I realize as I undertake the writing of these works
that I too might be in the same boat as other bold original
thinkers in this world, and be severely criticized, even
labeled a crackpot.

I know that this mind-staggering theory will come under
similar fire and I its author might suffer by becoming the
target of closed-minded derision. I therefore offer these
findings boldly but not without trepidation.

But truth is truth, whatever it might be. Furthermore,
my fear does not compare to that of Copernicus and
Galileo. I do not have to fear being burned at the stake or
even being imprisoned for my findings.

Sincerely, I hope this book will be received not just with
open-minded acceptance, but with open-minded considera¬
tion and appraisal. Remember, we are all searching for the
truth, whatever it might be.

We sincerely hope that scientists who are stumbling
around trying to find a solution to the many mysteries of
the Moon—to its origins and make-up—seriously look at
the evidence and consider the theory.

Although we can hope that even skeptical scientists will
open-mindedly give it serious consideration, we are aware
that with such a bizarre theory the chances are against it.
Most scientists and in fact most people tend to live in their

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own little world of accepted thought. It is not surprising
that human beings who over the years come to accept things
as they are interpreted by orthodox scientists have come
naturally to look upon the world revolving around Earth
(actually, we both revolve around each other) as just an
ordinary satellite. Hence, they are not going to be open to
accepting—or for that matter even considering—such an
unorthodox view.

This is the very reason why revolutionary theories which
take a completely different tack from the accepted norm
have always had trouble. Not that scientists shouldn’t be
skeptical. They must be. But still they should not close
their minds even to radical possibilities. If they had taken
an open-minded attitude hundreds of years ago, neither
Copernicus and Galileo would have had such difficulties
and harassment.

But, realistically, it is not surprising that men like
Copernicus and Galileo ran into a hornet’s nest of opposi¬
tion. After all, human beings had come over the many cen¬
turies to look upon their own world as being the center of
the universe. When they challenged this concept, claim¬
ing that the Sun was not the center of our solar system,
it was just too upsetting, too radical for the powers that
ran things at that time to accept. In fact, even to tolerate.
This naturally provoked fierce opposition and suppression
of such a dangerous idea.

Admittedly, it seemed on the surface to be too ridiculous
to the average person. Like the Spaceship Moon theory of
today, the unbelievable thesis that the Sun, not the Earth,
was the center of things appeared preposterous. Why, any¬
one save a blind man or idiot could see the Sun rose in the
east, went across the sky, and set in the west. Anyone could
see the Sun went around us!

ANOTHER DANGEROUS IDEA?

Certainly the human race has come a long way since the
original suppression of this medieval idea. But accepted,
entrenched ideas are difficult to change. Radical, unortho¬
dox concepts such as that of Spaceship Moon will turn out
to be too upsetting for the orthodox scientific order of

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things. Especially if this idea begins to seriously take hold
on the mind of the masses, then the scientific world threat¬
ened to bow again before established truth will fight a
bitter fight once more, we are afraid.

We realize also that making such radical ideas as Space¬
ship Moon known has proven in the past to be risky busi¬
ness. In ancient Greece five centuries before Christ a
philosopher-teacher by the name of Anaxagoras of Clazo-
menae, a mentor of Socrates, was condemned to death for
claiming that the Moon was made of essentially the same
material as our Earth. We also know that Galileo was im¬
prisoned and would have been put to the torch if he had
not withdrawn his shocking theory about the position of
our world in the cosmic scheme of things.

Copernicus, the author of the heliocentric theory, was
so afraid that his radical idea might create a storm of con¬
troversy resulting in punishment that he held back the
publication of his findings until he was on his deathbed.

Of course, scientists today need not worry about such
penalties. Neither do I.

Realistically, however, the scientific community as well
as the media will ignore this theory—or at best classify this
book as science fiction.

A top NASA expert, Edgar Cartwright, in the NASA
publication Apollo Expeditions to the Moon has made this
intriguing observation: “The early telescopes that first re¬
vealed the crater-pocked face of the Moon touched off
several centuries of speculation about the lunar surface by
scientists and science fiction writers alike—it often being
unclear who was writing the fiction.”

I am sure that although it now appears that science-fiction
writers were closer to the truth about the Moon than our
scientists, the establishment will collectively hardly take
notice of this theory despite the weight of its evidence.
While those in the inner sanctum of our space agency will
doubtless be disturbed by these revelations, the rest of the
scientific community will almost certainly pass it all off as
science fiction.

We ardently hope things will be different this time
around, but unfortunately they will probably not be.

I can hear the scientific skeptics shouting aloud: Who
are you to stand alone against the scientific world? Actually,

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we don’t. This, remember, is not our theory—but the brain¬
child of two Soviet scientific researchers. Also, it now
appears that other leading scientists outside the Iron Cur¬
tain, including a NASA researcher at the Jet Propulsion
Center and an Oxford physicist, agree with it!

However, even if I did stand alone against the world I
would be in good company. Remember how often through
the history of science such has been the case—Copernicus,
Galileo, Pasteur, Kepler, the Wright Brothers, Marconi—
all stood alone.

Even our NASA leaders recognized this fact, for in their
recent publication The New Mars they quote Galileo, one
of the “crackpots” whom the scientific and religious estab¬
lishment opposed and forced to shut up. And it is an inter¬
esting quote they pass along: “In questions on science the
authority of a thousand is not worth the reasoning of a
single individual.”

So be it with this theory.

It was Galileo who through his pioneer telescopic studies,
as Science News put it, “transformed the Moon from a ball
of light to a ball of rock.” (November 29, 1969.)

Now it looks as though scientists are going to eventually
be forced to change their conception of the Moon again—
this time from a ball of rock to a world of rocks and metal;
from a natural satellite of Earth into a huge hollowed-out
spaceship!

How long will it take before this eventually happens? We
do not know. But as the great Max Planck, whose quantum
theory shook up the scientific world just a few decades ago,
once observed: “An important scientific innovation rarely
makes its way by gradually winning over and converting
its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul.
What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out
and that the growing generation is familiarized with the
idea from the beginning! Another instance of the fact that
the future is with youth.”

If this day ever dawns, then the world will be in for a
revolution—a revolution of changing ideas. For the realiza¬
tion that the Moon is-more than just a moon but a world
harboring intelligent beings is awesome and disturbing in its
implications.

This is a mind-stunning idea, for in facing the reality of

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the Moon we may be ultimately facing the reality of our¬
selves. Our whole new outlook * on our satellite will, we
are convinced, lead us to take a whole new look at our¬
selves—at our origins, our past, our purpose, and, yes,
shockingly possible, even our future.

At the beginning we asked you not to accept anything
about the Moon but to examine the evidence with an open
mind and reach your own conclusions. We have followed
the facts, lead where they might. This book has thus been
short on speculation, long on evidence and data. And that
is the way it should be.

Now an overwhelming array of speculative questions
begins to besiege our minds. Who are these intelligent Moon
beings? Where do they come from? What do they want
with us? (Or should we say, what have they had to do with
us, for evidence Morris Jessup cites leads one to believe
as he does that they have been around for thousands of
years.)

Are their minds like ours (or should we maybe say, are
our minds like theirs)? Are they godlike or just beings like
ourselves—except, of course, on a much higher level of
development? Could they be pure intelligence?

There is no end, seemingly, to the questions that now
swirl in one’s mind. Questions that hinge and swing around
the ultimate questions of man’s existence: Where did we
come from? Why are we here? Where are we going?

The author does not intend to impinge on the realm of
religion. Nor invade the field of the occult. We realize that
many people abhor the thought that there may be another
form of intelligent life out there—that other intelligences
indeed are not only watching and observing us, but are cer¬
tainly superior to us.

But I am convinced that our minds, shrink as they may
from the frightening possible answers to these all-important
questions, are so structured and designed that they instinc¬
tively hunger and yearn for the truth. Seek the truth what¬
ever it might be. Let the chips fall where they may. And
as long as all of us are seeking the truth, whatever it might

* With our new Space Age cosmic experiences, more and more
people are beginning to spell our Moon and Earth with capital let¬
ters; as Buckminster Fuller observes, our new cosmic outlook re¬
quires that they should be.

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be, there can ultimately be no conflict between religion,
philosophy, science, and even the occult. For there can be
only one truth—only one true answer to the origin of the
Moon, or, for that matter, the origin of man.

Strangely enough, the fact that the Moon is a spaceship
seems in our view of the evidence to be the key to a myriad
of puzzles perplexing our planet and its inhabitants. Not
the least of which are those persistent Unidentified Flying
Objects which researchers (and, fortunately, more and more
of them scientists!) have found solid evidence for existing
not just in our present era but over the long past of man¬
kind—stretching back into the mists of time. What are they
and where do they come from? “Spaceships, 11 say the ma¬
jority of those studying the problem. Although this may be
a gross oversimplification—for only God knows what kind
of immense intelligences we are dealing with—it would
seem to be the logical answer.

In philosophy there is a rule of reason (though not ac¬
cepted by all) called Occam’s Razor that states that if there
are a number of equally valid solutions to a philosophical
problem, the simplest is probably the correct one. The
astronomer Morris Jessup claims that it is also “a basic
postulate of science that the simplest explanation is
the best.” {The Expanding Case for the UFO.)

Researchers, I believe—whether they be UFO research¬
ers, philosophical, religious, occult, scientific—will all find
that the truth about our Moon is the key to the truth about
our world and ourselves. This is Jessup’s judgment, too.

We are convinced that this mind-boggling, mind-stunning
theory will someday provide a synthesis for all the mys¬
teries swirling around man.

A FIRE TO BE LIGHTED . . .

On August 12, 1971, commander David Scott, conclud¬
ing an Apollo 15 press conference, summed it all up:

“We went to the Moon as trained observers in order to
gather data not only with our instruments but with our
minds. I’d like to quote a statement from Plutarch which
I think expresses our feelings since we’ve come back: ‘The
mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.’ ”

272

We ardently hope that the revelations of this book and
the startling solution to the Moon’s mysteries will light a
fire in many of the brilliant minds that grace our globe.
Hopefully, this book will fire these minds not only with the
puzzles about our Moon but about man, and impel them
to seek to know more about both. Who knows but that
someone reading this book will marshal someday the final
conclusive evidence, compelling even our secretive govern¬
ment to acknowledge the truth. Maybe then together we
will assault the greatest puzzle facing man—himself. For
the Moon may be the key even to the mystery of man
himself I

In conclusion, the Moon may not be a devastating orb
of truth but a fount of revelation about man and his past—
the truth of which may set man and his mind free.

Once space enthusiasts described the Moon as a stepping-
stone into our universe. It indeed could be just that. And
if the Spaceship theory is correct, it could well be a leaping
stone to man's understanding of himself and his own world .

273

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Chemistry

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National Enquirer
National Geographic

New York Times and New York Times Magazine
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Saga and Saga UFO Report

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Scientific American

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CHAPTER 1—STRANGE STRUCTURES DISCOV¬
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CHAPTER 2—MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS ON THE MOON!
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CHAPTER 3—THE LUNAR UFO CONNECTION
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CHAPTER 4—IS OUR MOON A KIND OF HOL-
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CHAPTER 5—MAN’S OWN SPACESHIP WORLD?
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CHAPTER 8—IS OUR MOON HOLLOW?

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CHAPTER 9—DOES THE MOON HAVE A CON¬
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CHAPTER 10—DOES THE MOON HAVE AN INNER
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%

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CHAPTER 11—ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTION IN¬
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CHAPTER 12—THE MOON IS NO LONGER A MYS¬
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CHAPTER 13—THE ALL-COMPREHENSIVE SPACE¬
SHIP MOON THEORY!

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April 7, 1973 (Vol. 103), pp. 228-9.
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CHAPTER 14—SOMEBODY IS INSIDE THE MOON!
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(New York Times News Service), April 22, 1976 (p. 8-B).

CHAPTER 15—THE MULTIPLYING MYSTERIES OF
THE MOON

Science Digest, “Is There a Tunnel on the Moon?” No¬
vember 1952 (Vol. 32), p. 70.

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CHAPTER 18—THE MYSTERIOUS ALIEN SATEL¬
LITE OF OUR MOON!

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ciety, “Space Probe From Epsilon Bootis,” by D. A. Lunan,
April 1973, pp. 122-133.

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59-60.

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